Inclusivity is widely regarded as the prime overarching benchmark of the health of organisational culture. Therefore, assessing the level of capability of leaders to generate a sense that everyone in the organisation is included and their full intellectual capital is being leveraged, is fundamental. The question is whether leaders can themselves perform the task of …
The unseemly spectacle which unfolded recently in the Australian Federal Parliament where Senator David Leyonhjelm, in the midst of a debate about sexual violence against women shouted across the chamber at a young opposition female senator, Sarah Hanson-Young that she should “stop shagging men” (and later gratuitously repeated the same slur on Sky TV) has …
The just-released report from Atlassian, ‘State of Diversity and Inclusion in U.S Tech’, provides some sobering reading about efforts to promote diversity and inclusion in the technology industries. And while tech and STEM have proved particularly resistant to efforts to promote the representation and advancement of women and other diverse groups, it is also true …
In 2016, the publishing house, Thomson Reuters launched its global D & I index to rank the Top 100 companies for diversity and inclusiveness. The index determines its rankings by applying 24 metrics across four key categories: Diversity, Inclusion, People Development and News Controversies. The D & I index is intended to serve not as a measure …
By: Mary Slaughter, Khalil Smith & David Rock (Psychology Today, February 2018) Read the full article here: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/your-brain-work/201802/the-brain-science-could-help-explain-sexual-harassment This article is a recommended read by Symmetra to raise awareness of those in positions of power in your workplace and those around them as to the profound impact the possession of power can subconsciously have on …
By: Sam Bourton, Johanne Lavoie & Tiffany Vogel (McKinsey Quarterly, March 2018) Read the full article here: https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/organization/our-insights/leading-with-inner-agility The question addressed in this article is how leaders should apply their judgement and decision-making responsibilities in a time of accelerating change and sometimes fundamental disruption of the industries in which they operate. In its essence, Symmetra …
(McKinsey Global Institute, April 2018) Read the full article here: https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/gender-equality/the-power-of-parity-advancing-womens-equality-in-asia-pacific The McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), over the past three years, has compiled a series of reports projecting the economic impact of advancing equality for women across various regions of the world. In its first report in 2015 The Power of Parity: how advancing women’s …
By Rocio Lorenzo and Martin Reeves Harvard Business Review, January 20, 2018 Advocates of workplace diversity have argued their case not only based on intrinsic fairness but because such programs are seen to bring tangible benefits to organisations. Not everyone accepts the second part of the proposition. Some contend that there is absolutely no evidence …
By: Heejung Chung (European Journal of Industrial Relations, January 2018) http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0959680117752829 The demand for flexible working has been increasing globally. This applies across all sectors of the economy and it is sought by both genders although females remain statistically the major applicants. The reasons why employees of either gender wish to exercise control over their …
Australia has traditionally perceived itself to be a country of egalitarianism – the land where everyone has a “fair go” at least insofar as socioeconomic status is concerned. If this were literally true there would be little difficulty for anyone to move (up or down) into a different socio-economic bracket, regardless of where one was …