How the Ethnic Penalty shapes UK’s Professional Landscape
This article explores how the “ethnic penalty” affects career progression for ethnic minorities in the UK, touching on educational disparities, employment gaps, and the need for representation at senior levels in the workplace. It offers insights on how organisations can foster more inclusive work environments by tackling biases and adopting reverse mentoring schemes.
Building disability inclusive workplaces
Organisations stand to gain significantly by prioritising disability inclusion, both in terms of employee well-being and business success. From addressing the barriers faced by disabled individuals to offering practical solutions, discover how creating disability-friendly workplaces can improve employee engagement and drive profits.
Disability Inclusion in Indian Civil Services – Our Thoughts
Given the current multiple controversies surrounding the Indian civil services, this one about questioning the provision of entry to persons with disabilities prompted us to break our silence on the matter of disability inclusion. Let’s examine an officer’s comment recently made on a public forum.
Childcare Leave: A Constitutional Right for Women in Employment?
In a landmark judgment in April of 2024, the Supreme Court of India affirmed that childcare leave, in addition to maternity leave, is a constitutional right for women in employment.
Global view on social mobility – focus on India
Influencing wellbeing, life satisfaction, economic growth and even social cohesion, social mobility is an important measure of development in a society. It refers to the ability of individuals and groups to shift across socio-economic levels (ideally upward).
White Feminism – how feminist movements failed to be inclusive
Feminism is often categorised as ‘waves’ – time periods aimed at elevating women’s status in society and giving them equal rights.
Diversity and Inclusion in Action: An Indian Perspective
Most organizations report no issues with caste, saying that all their people-decisions are based on merit and merit alone. However, this perspective doesn’t fit well with research that indicates the low representation of disadvantaged castes at higher management levels, and which also sheds light on their day-to-day experiences of marginalization.
The relevance of social intelligence in the workplace
The relevance of social intelligence in the workplace
Why don’t Employee Resource Groups work? – a different approach to diversity
Employee Resource Groups, or ERGs, have been embedded into corporate cultures since the 1970s. They are often also referred to as business networks or affinity groups, where people come together around a shared identity such as race, gender, age, or mental health.
How to make your performance appraisal process more inclusive
During the last several years, we have seen more and more organisations move away from traditional performance management processes. Starting with technology companies, such as Microsoft, large professional services firms, Accenture and Deloitte also followed suit.