Jun 30 2009
By: Christina Ioannidis, originally posted at Christinaioannidis.com
One of the biggest challenges for women in business in breaking the “glass ceiling” is the lack of female role models in their organisations. Women who can lend a helping hand and extend their supportive reach in guiding women up the talent pipeline.
Another attitudinal issue we have often come [...]
Jun 17 2009
Did you know that, on average, employee costs can be calculated at 2.7 times of base salary. So, someone on £35,000 costs the business £94,500 (including national insurance (social security)/employment costs and minimal office space). Fanatics of Business Week would have seen the articles last year with the astounding facts:
• Only 13% of senior executives at [...]
Jun 09 2009
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Jun 08 2009
At times, the whole gender diversity discussion can easily fall into the positive discrimination banner. However, what is increasingly clear, is that both personal and scientific cross-roads are coinciding. Women and men are biologically different; and both bring positive attributes to business. Positive discrimination is sidelined when metrics take over.
Readers of my blog will have [...]
Jun 03 2009
Looking forward to our Select senior women’s dinner in London next week! #
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Jun 02 2009
So, your organisation has a set senior management team, and a concrete workforce. Given recent pressure to downsize, you have just undertaken a cost-cutting exercise and made “excess” staff redundant. In doing so, how did you decide the staff to keep, and the employees to “let go”?
One of the fastest things to happen in the [...]