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Diversity and inclusion in the construction industry is frequently talked about in the Middle East and around the world. In support of achieving gender parity, Middle East Consultant's Women in [...]

Research and practice over the last two decades have established beyond a doubt, the impact that diversity of workforce has on productivity and profitability. In line with various countries taking [...]

File- Gayer-Anderson Museum. CAIRO -- 18 May 2020: Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities will organise an exclusive tour at the historic Gayer-Anderson Museum (Beit Al-Kriteleyh) in celebration of the [...]

WSP in the Middle East celebrated gender balance and diversity by launching a week-long schedule of activities held under the International Women's Day (IWD) 2020 theme: 'Each for Equal'. The [...]

Summary: How can African businesses attract, develop and retain more skilled female talent? Joydeep Bose, President and Global Head, Human Resources, at Olam reveals some of the innovative techniques that [...]

Summary: As we enter the third decade of the new millennium, what more can organisations be doing to develop a diverse workforce and benefit from the capability and bottom- line [...]

Summary: Recognition and valuing of diversity is not the same as making employees feel included. In addition, people need to feel that their contribution is valued. Yendor Felgate tells us [...]

Summary: Developing initiatives to support diversity isn't just about gender equality. Tami Odunaiya sat down with HR leaders from two companies in Kenya to find out how they are exploring [...]

Sainsbury's opens rst On the Go c-store in London Tesco drops China supplier aer prison labour claims Grocery giants to unite to embrace diversity Aldi and Lidl swiping sales from [...]

19 December 2019 FICCI has set up a 'Task Force on Diversity and Inclusion (D&I)' which will work towards enabling 0&1 focused work policies across India Inc to ensure Indian [...]

Byline: Khalil Ahmed Syed Ali Raza Bukhari: Prior to joining NITL as Head of SMAs, I have had the opportunity to set up and successfully manage a Pakistan Stock Exchange [...]

How to deal with board gender quotas 'IT'S LIKE smoking; ultimately only a hard intervention made people change,' says Jochem Overbosch, an executive recruiter in Amsterdam. As with bans on [...]

In February 2018, Wipro announced in a firm-wide email they were adding sexual orientation and gender identity to their long-standing diversity and inclusion policy. Alex Beal, who initiated the LGBT+ [...]

When the management of Natura learnt about the high rates of violence against LGBT+ people in Brazil, they were shocked. Large numbers of their customers were LGBT+. Natura is headquartered [...]

Open For Business is a coalition of global companies making the case that inclusive, diverse societies are better for business and better for economic growth. The purpose of the coalition [...]

Upfield ditches Mumsnet: Flora owner Upfield has withdrawn from an advertising tie-up with Mumsnet over complaints it allows transphobic content to run unchecked. Responding to complaints on social media that [...]

Senior executives make grand promises about improving diversity, and legislation such as gender pay gap reporting is pushing that agenda further. But if they're so committed, why aren't things moving [...]

The deadline for entries to the Personnel Today Awards 2019 has been extended until 21 June, due to popular demand. Entrants now have two more weeks to perfect their entries [...]

Employee learning development is important to SNC-Lavalin according to Grant Porter, Atkins' CEO of Engineering, Design and Project Management in the Middle East and Africa. Porter chairs SNC-Lavalin's Middle East [...]

MPs have strongly criticised the government's apprenticeships programme, finding that its focus on higher level placements and levy-paying employers means that small employers and disadvantaged areas miss out on its [...]

Last year, when Middle East Consultant kicked off its focus on the lack of gender diversity in the construction industry, the global and regional figures made for grim reading. A [...]

Byline: Hani Ashkar As organisations work to harness and develop their people's skills in order to prepare for the future, no investment is more crucial for our region than supporting [...]

Entries are now open for the 2019 Personnel Today Awards, recognising the HR teams, individuals and suppliers that have delivered outstanding benefits to their organisations through their people policies. 2019 [...]

Standard Chartered Bank (Pakistan) Limited announces the launch of Women in Tech, a global programme aimed at supporting greater diversity in gender representation within technology based entrepreneurship. Partnering with INNOVentures [...]

JD Sports Fashion is one of the public companies that the Investment Association has written to.Richard Gray/Empics Entertainment Dozens of FTSE 350 organisations, including household names such as Domino's Pizza, [...]

Stefan Kiefer / imageBROKER/REX/Shutterstock The Bank of England is still 'some way off' its diversity targets for next year, with little evidence that it is doing enough to improve representation [...]

An Interview with Zahid Mubarik SHRM-SCP, GPHR, SPHRi Question: how diversity and inclusion is important for sustainability of organization? On 25 September 2015, 193 countries of the United Nations adopted [...]

Africa holds immense potential for Olam. Its sizable population and increasing consumer base provide immerse opportunity for our business on the continent. There is a significant gap between the number [...]

'I remember walking down Regent Street in the Pride parade and seeing someone in the crowd that was shrieking: 'Oh my god, they're surveyors,'' says Misa von Tunzelman, head of [...]

A little over two years ago, Jessica Kingsley Publishers (JKP)--the social and behavioural sciences publisher, with a distinctive voice in the fields of autism and gender diversity--was acquired by Hachette [...]

While diversity is usually regarded as vital to a more innovative organisation, new ideas only come forward when employees feel part of an inclusive culture. Nic Hammarling, head of diversity [...]

The UK's technology sector is far behind the FTSE 100 when it comes to diversity among board members a new study has shown. The http://www.inclusiveboards.co.uk/tech-report-launch/ t showed that just 12.6% [...]

Poor succession planning for leadership positions could be contributing to the limited progress in achieving gender balance. Brett Moffatt explains how organisations could benefit from developing female leaders before top [...]

'People still get surprised when a woman starts talking and she shows her accurate technical and business knowledge, especially if you have not been introduced. If there's a group of [...]

It has been brought to our attention that the 2018 judging panel for the Personnel Today Awards is not representative of our audience nor of the wider HR community, specifically [...]

Your entire career has been played out in the shadow cast by WPP's Sir Martin Sorrell. For more than 30 years, he determinedly built the biggest and most powerful company [...]

The FLO Gender Parity Index Award was given to Synchrony International Service Pvt. Ltd, Hyderabad, which has Ranked #1 on the index. Sunil Bijlani, Senior Vice President, says, What are [...]

'Engineering and construction are still very much male-dominated industries and like all other professions that are typically male-dominated, I believe the greatest barrier is perception …' As part of theWomen [...]

Jazz, one of the country's leading digital companies, was awarded the Diversity and Inclusion Award at this year's Global Diversity and Inclusion Benchmarks Conference [...]

Why Diversity and Inclusion is Important Organizations today are dedicated to serving all stakeholders, including customers, employees, suppliers, regulators, shareholders and society at large. Future-focused organizations want to ensure long-term [...]

EQUALENGINEERS WAS ESTABLISHED IN 2017 when founder, Mark McBride-Wright saw how a truly integrated approach was needed to improve equality, diversity and inclusion (ED&I) for underrepresented groups in the engineering [...]