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Research: To Excel, Diverse Teams Need Psychological Safety
The promise of staffing a team with diverse members is that the different perspectives, ideas, and opinions will result in greater performance. The reality is that diverse teams often underperform because people from dissimilar backgrounds often clash. A study of 62...
Women Rising: The Unseen Barriers
Many CEOs who make gender diversity a priority—by setting aspirational goals for the proportion of women in leadership roles, insisting on diverse slates of candidates for senior positions, and developing mentoring and training programs—are frustrated. They and their...
International Women’s Day
Diversity Australia proudly celebrating International Women's Day theme, Changing Climates: Equality today for a sustainable tomorrow and encourages all organisations to undertake and adopt the new global best practices standards recently released and adopted by...
The Great Resignation is really the “The Great Awakening.
The Great Resignation is really the "The Great Awakening". With the average life span now pushing 6000 weekends most people would be re-evaluating their life and how to live it. People are rejecting cultures of burnout in favour of what makes them thrive. It's being...
Safety poster becomes costly reminder that horseplay can still amount to sexual harassment
Independent contractor and workplace consultant, Vitality Works Australia Pty Ltd (Vitality Works), and NSW government-owned corporation Sydney Water (Sydney Water), have each been held jointly liable for sexual harassment after displaying a ‘sexually suggestive’...
New family and domestic violence leave entitlements – Are your Policies in Place?
Following a Fair Work Commission (FWC) decision, most employees can take unpaid leave to deal with family and domestic violence from the first full pay period on or after 1 August 2018. The FWC will soon be updating all industry and occupation awards to include a new...
Why recruitment bias is bad for business
When you're ready to next hire a new team member, have a good look around you. At the same time, peer into the mirror. Is your team disturbingly familiar? Is there a ‘same-same, but different’ approach in your hiring practices? If this is the case, you could be...
Diversity as a business advantage
As megatrends like globalisation, urbanisation and digitisation descend upon Australia, the very concept of commercial road transport is put to the test – and only a diverse workforce will be able to cushion the shock. If the Australian Logistics Council’s (ALC) 2017...
Gender equality core element of Australia’s foreign policy: Envoy
ISLAMABAD - Australian High Commissioner to Pakistan Margaret Adamson Monday said that gender equality and women’s empowerment was a core element of Australia’s foreign policy. Adamson welcomed Australian gender equality advocate Elizabeth Broderick to Pakistan on a...
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