The weight of the rule: lessons from sport
With the issue of health and safety at work even more critical today, how can the way the sports world addresses rules help managers create positive safety behaviours among their teams?
Why LGBT+ inclusion is a key to long-term success in business
Diversity in the workplace is only one part of the equation for successful business performance, the other being actively creating an inclusive environment where employees can express their authentic selves.
“An opportunity to rethink what we do in the office and what we do remotely”
Professor Emmanuelle Léon discusses the pandemic’s impact on the way we work. Where are businesses today and what challenges are to come? Stick with us to find out.
How do you bring employees back to the office – and do you want to?
When the pandemic is finally over, will we be going back to the office like before? Alain d’Iribarne, an economist specialised in work-related sociology, along with Kévin Duchier, HR Director of Germinal, provide some insights.
Logistics workers keeping the global supply chain moving can also disrupt it
Prof. Valentina Carbone & PhD candidate Tra-My Le review a book showing how these workers constituting the backbone of supply chains can use their power to resist poor working conditions.
To demonstrate their commitment, remote workers are making themselves more available than ever
Prof. Emmanuelle Léon and her research associates have shown that in a context where physical presence is still highly valued, employees are extending their working hours to gain the trust of their superiors.
Is bringing the next generation into your family business something you should want?
Profs. Alisa Sydow and Chiara Succi provide some helpful, concrete tips for those who really want their children to enter the family business.
“Disability is not a fatality but an asset”
Visually impaired at birth, Benjamin Louis devotes his days to promoting inclusion among people with disabilities. He talks about his personal journey and his desire to drive change, particularly through sport.
Religious diversity in the workplace: toward an exemplary management system?
Companies are increasingly faced with religious demands at a global level. Prof. Géraldine Galindo and her co-author assess the tools that corporations have been trying to design in order to address this sensitive issue.
A critique of the tyranny of metrics and figures
Prof. Ghislain Deslandes reviews The Tyranny of Metrics, a book about how the obsession with quantifying human performance threatens business, medicine, education, government – and the quality of our lives.
“We still have work to do on inclusion, on hiring talents with different capabilities”
“Companies must work so that the diversity of the communities in which they operate is reflected in their workforce and value chain.” Coca-Cola’s HR Director for Iberia, Marta Muñoz Ledesma, shares her experience of diversity and inclusion in recruitment as well as the initiatives and projects to promote these topics in a company’s daily life.
Inclusion and Diversity, not the other way around
ESCP’s Associate Dean for Inclusion and Diversity, Cécile Kharoubi shares her take on why some companies’ D&I policies fail. “They have focused on diversity and forgotten about inclusion.”
