Posted on 09 August 2011. Tags: Ass of the Week, Employers
Despite all the good work going on to improve gender balance in leadership I was astonished to learn this week of the Diggers & Dealers conference – whose organisers earned my second Ass of the Week award on sphinxx. Now in its 20th year, the conference and associated activities are held annually in (of all places) Kalgoorlie, WA. Why […]
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Posted on 09 August 2011. Tags: Harrassment, Sexual discrimination
Spreading rumours at work is indeed a sackable offence, with the decision to sack a Global Cranes worker who spread “salacious” rumours being upheld by the workplace watchdog. Former Global Cranes employee Kym Reedy was fired in December last year after it was found that she spread rumours about her employer’s sex life and supposed drug […]
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Posted on 09 August 2011. Tags: Offers
Thanks to everyone who’s placed orders already in the half price 50 from 50 offer this month in the sphinxx shop. We’ve just restocked the shelves with 20 new titles, so if the selection was looking a bit light on the last time you looked, why not take another peek and see the full range on sale […]
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Posted on 09 August 2011. Tags: Harrassment, Sexual discrimination
Asked to report one salient regret in life, men were more likely to mention a work regret, whereas women were more likely to mention a regret related to love, according to a survey of 370 adult Americans by Mike Morrison of the University of Illinois and Neal J. Roese of the Kellogg School at Northwestern University. When […]
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Posted on 05 August 2011. Tags: leadership, News
I came across this story by Ethan Bronner which I think is just a great way to cap out the week… a group of women who defied the laws of Israel with their own peaceful protest involving (of all things!) a swim in the ocean! The women – most of whom had never seen the ocean before – were […]
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Posted on 02 August 2011. Tags: Career Management, Employers, Negotiation, Salary and remuneration
We need to talk about recruitment. Specifically it seems we need to talk about recruiting women into key leadership roles, because still I keep hearing there aren’t enough suitable women out there. So who makes this assessment anyway? The recruiters? Business leaders? The women? It seems that all three have an important role to play. And if we’re to […]
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