Young Entrepreneurs Make a Change
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How to Improve Business Through Diversity Management
Cultural diversity can improve businesses through new ideas, strengthening understanding and relationships of different client groups, and by boosting innovation through multicultural networks.
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Social Science for Clients
Social scientists use ethnography to study individuals and groups interacting in their everyday lives. This involves attending public events, observing community behaviour and gathering other information to assess how people react to social situations.
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Breaking the Spiral of Silence
Researcher Chengjun Wang finds that local reference groups, such as local media, continue to influence public opinion. This is despite the fact that social media offers diverse opinions at the global scale.
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Managing Employee’s Social Media Use Ethically
Companies should make their social media policies clear to employees, but these have to be lawful and fair.
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Social Networks and the Diffusion of Ideas
Understanding the social networks in your organisation is central to increasing innovation and making the most of mass communication and technology, including social media.
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Workplace Stigma of Mental Illness
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High Court Recognises Third Gender Category
In June 2013, I wrote about Norrie, a transgender woman from New South Wales (pictured above), who had successfully petitioned The New South Wales Court of Appeal to be given the right not to list her gender as either male or female. Predictably, this New South Wales decision had been appealed and it went to the High Court. This morning, they ruled that New South Wales law can indeed recognise non-specific genders other than male or female. See the legal document below. High Court ruling: NSW Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages v Norrie Photo and news: SBS News. Continue reading High Court Recognises Third Gender Category
Why Women’s Leadership is a Business Asset
Social science studies find that male bosses are more likely to judge the competence of women managers using a skewed view on gender. In practice, this means organisations are missing out on a proactive approach to leadership.
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