Australian researcher Barbara Pocock has written several books and research articles on how managers can improve work/life balance. This includes being flexible with hours and the structure of work, the type of work different employees do, and the ways that employees can deliver work outputs.
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John Roberts from the University of Cambridge shows that the public’s mistrust of corporate ethics is not a given. It exists because many businesses are perceived to only pay lip service to corporate responsibility.
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This week I discus the importance of monitoring diversity at different levels of the organisation, especially in leadership.
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A study of 1,700 Americans finds that entrepreneurs pray twice as much as the general public: more than half pray at least once daily, and one third pray multiple times per day. Entrepreneurs are also more likely to say they feel a personal connection to God “who is interested in their problems and affairs.”
The study finds that entrepreneurs also tend to attend religious services in churches that encourage business and profit-making, which some of the larger organised religions do not. Entrepreneurs are celebrated as risk takers and extroverts. Religious people are typically painted as conservative and risk-adverse. How do these findings reconcile these two phenomena?
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A Gallup poll finds that 81% of engaged workers are more likely to give their employer’s products and services a positive recommendation on social media in comparison to only 18% of actively disengaged workers.
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Continue reading “Learn to Fail, Teach Trust”“In a fear-based, failure-averse culture, people will consciously or unconsciously avoid risk. They will seek instead to repeat something safe that’s been good enough in the past. Their work will be derivative, not innovative. But if you can foster a positive understanding of failure, the opposite will happen…. We must think of the cost of failure as an investment in the future.”
– Ed Catmull, Pixar Co-founder.
The United Nations – Roadmap to Women’s Economic Empowerment.
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Social Science Highly Sought After
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Young Entrepreneurs Make a Change
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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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