Tag: diversity
Women form 36.1% of Wipro’s workforce, 22.2% of board of directors
That Wipro is serious about its mission to make the organisation diverse and inclusive in every sense of the word is clear from the...
Why equity is more important than diversity
Organisations worldwide are in a mad rush to take forward their diversity, equity and inclusion agendas. Yes, the spotlight has been on DE&I lately,...
TCS grants increments of 5 to 8% to staff, speeds up...
On 8 July 2022, Indian multinational company, Tata Consultancy Services revealed that its employees have been given increments between five to eight per cent,...
Shriram Housing Finance aims to improve women’s representation at workplace
Shriram Housing Finance, the affordable housing company, has launched the ‘SHeFirst’ programme to improve the representation of women at the workplace. Under this programme,...
Transgender people bag employment opportunities
The Indian workforce is becoming diverse and how!
Bharat Aluminimum Company or BALCO as it is known, a subsdiary of Vedanta Aluminium, has hired seven...
Pernod Ricard India appoints Zainab Patel as head-D&I; pushes for diversity
Wine and spirits manufacturer Pernod Ricard India is aggressively pushing for a more diverse workforce and is reiterating their focus on onboading more diverse...
Organisations worldwide are becoming more inclusive: Report
Figures for women in the corporate world are rather impressive, if the Gender Equality Index for 2022 is to be believed. About 7.5 per...
How to ensure meritocracy while having diversity
It has been a while now since diversity and inclusion or D&I became one of the biggest agendas for organisations. In fact, for many,...
Are diversity hires only tokenism?
Diversity at the workplace is an essential factor in keeping it fresh and open for progress. Different people, belonging to different backgrounds and genders...
Can demographic diversity ensure cognitive diversity at the workplace?
Today, it is not uncommon to find multinational companies speaking publicly of the men to women ratio in their organisations, or even bragging about...
Shipsy’s ‘2nd Innings’ programme encourages diversity
Shipsy, the SaaS-based smart logistics management platform provider, has launched a programme called 2nd Innings, as part of its measures to promote diversity and...
Nestle India bats for gender diversity, recruits 42% women in 2020
Proving its commitment to ensuring and improving gender diversity within the organisation, Nestle India is focussing on hiring more women. Right now, 23 per...
Bank of Canada bats for diversity, appoints women deputy governors
The Bank of Canada will soon have two women as members of its governing council. The first woman to be part of the six-member...
Amazon launches 2 all-women delivery stations in Kerala
Amazon India has launched two delivery stations in Kerala, which will be operated by a 100 per cent all- women team. The stations, at...
What makes Indian CXOs a great fit for global roles?
In India, people follow different religions, customs, belong to different sects, castes, and speak different languages. Every state is known for its own festivities,...
Randi Bryant is first chief diversity officer for Freshworks
In line with its goal to focus on diversity in the workspace, SaaS software company, Freshworks Inc. has appointed DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion)...
iD Fresh Food to hire 500+, ensure diversity
iD Fresh Food, the fresh food company, is working to expand its workforce in India and abroad. It hopes to ensure more gender diversity...
Shilpa Bidathanapalli appointed VP-HR, CNSI
CNSI, the global innovative healthcare management solutions provider, has appointed Shilpa Bidathanapalli as vice president - human resources, for its operations in Chennai, India....
Boeing fires 65 employees for racist conduct
In the new company report on diversity, Boeing has mentioned that since June 2020, it has fired 65 employees and disciplined 53 for behaviours...
MG Motor India’s all-women crew manufactures 50,000th Hector
Upholding its commitment to gender parity, MG Motor India has managed to manufacture its 50,000th Hector using an all-women crew at its manufacturing facility...
41% employees will stay longer if there is internal hiring: Report
The COVID-19 outbreak accelerated digitisation of processes, including hiring processes, across companies and sectors. If predictions based on LinkedIn’s data and survey of HR...
Airbnb bats for D&I, will include more women, minorities in workforce
Airbnb has pledged to integrate more minorities from underrepresented communities in the US. It will also ensure that 50 per cent of its global...
India Workplace Equality Index launched
India now has its own workplace equality index with the launch of the India Workplace Equality Index (IWEI). Keshav Suri, hotelier and LGBT+ activist,...
More firms are promoting D&I heads across the globe
Maggie Farrell is appointed the D&I and human resources manager of construction service firm, SM Wilson & Co., while Candice Eaton Gaul moves up...
59% indigenous Australians face racism at work
Institutional racism continues to be a concern for the Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islander workers, in Australia. The Diversity Council Australia in collaboration with...
Exclusive job portal for women, LGBTQ, PwD and army veterans
Avtar, the Chennai-based diversity hiring company, has launched a job portal that will cater exclusively to women, members of the the LGBTQ community, persons...
Lowe’s India appoints Mohith Mohan as senior director – HR
Lowe's India has announced the appointment of Mohith Mohan as the senior director for human resources in India.
Mohan has move from Hudson’s Bay Company,...
Sun Life ASCI accelerates D&I agenda with women-centric initiatives
Sun Life Asia Service Centre India (ASCI), which is the global in-house centre (GIC) of Sun Life Financial, has a 1900-strong workforce, of which...
ABB to have 25% women in managerial roles
As part of its Global Diversity & Inclusion Strategy 2030, ABB is working to double the percentage of women managers across its offices, globally,...
Google to set up DEI Advisory Council, will strengthen D&I agenda
Taking forward its commitment to making the workplace more friendly and to uphold its D&I agenda, Google will set up a Diversity, Equity and...
Wells Fargo CEO apologises for insensitive comment about Black talent
Charles Scharf, CEO, Wells Fargo, had, in a memo to the employees, commented that the talent pool in the corporate world in the US...
DXC Tech onboards 500 women in a single day
DXC Technologies announced on August 27 that it has onboarded 500 women candidates in a single day! All the candidates, who come from leading...
‘Weekend curfew’ and ‘gratitude holiday’ for OYO employees
OYO Hotels & Homes has announced several initiatives to ensure the health, wellbeing and work-life balance of its employees, as it gears up to...
Alstom India steps up diversity efforts
Alstom India has increased its efforts to hire more women across the organisation and on the shopfloor. A part of its global 2025 vision...
10 days of period leave a year for Zomato employees
In an attempt to eliminate the stigma associated with menstruation, Zomato, the food-delivery company has introduced period leave. The women employees of the Company...
Why Godrej & Boyce is engaging more women in the workforce
It is not surprising that women are underrepresented in the manufacturing sector, and the argument to increase the industry’s fair share of female talent...
Diversity is more than a numbers game
The case for diversity calls for more than just hiring a bunch of different people into an organisation. Quite often, the ‘I’ in D&I...
IKEA India celebrates Equality Day
Ahead of International Women’s Day on March 8, IKEA India observed Equality Day on March 3, at its corporate office in Bangalore, to celebrate...
IPM India drives forward the D&I agenda
IPM India has seen change in the organisational culture as the leadership team has spearheaded a movement to make the workplace more diverse and...
Leading by example: How Uber India is driving the D&I agenda
Uber, the global transport company with its roots in San Francisco -- one of the most diverse cities in the United States -- is...
WeWork India shows its commitment to the D&I agenda
WeWork India, one of the major co-working businesses operating in the country, has announced the extension of medical insurance benefits to same-sex domestic partners...
Vatican upholds diversity, appoints first woman in a senior post
Pope Francis has announced that Fracesa Di Giovanni will be an under-secretary overseeing multilateral relations in the Secretariat
Sixty-six year old Francesca Di Giovanni will...
Chennai Metro Rail: Women employees allege, not getting maternity leave
The 70 odd women employees working with Chennai Metro Rail has alleged that the government has denied them maternity leave. According to the staff...
CredAble takes gender sensitisation seriously
The ‘Me Too’ movement brought many cases of sexual harassment at workplaces into the limelight. It also made the corporate world more aware of...
How diversity is connected to engagement
Organisations that have fewer women in their workforces are actually missing out. On what? On many positive outcomes, including higher job satisfaction, enhanced level...
How IPM is trying to achieve its diversity agenda
IPM India aims to reach 40 per cent women's representation at work by 2022. The Company started its D&I journey in 2016 to achieve...
Anuranjita Kumar quits RBS: Sanjeev Vaid elevated to MD-HR, rewards
Anuranjita Kumar has left her seat as the managing director and head-HR, international hubs, Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), after almost two years of...
TCS India initiates medical insurance cover for its LGBT employees
Information technology services major, Tata Consultancy Services, has revamped its employee health benefits policy to include its staff members who belong to the LGBT...
How to make cross-functional teams successful
Working professionals have different perspectives about assigning a project to a cross-functional team. But what is it that leads to such varying opinions? A...
Pakistan to encourage women to join the judiciary
Emphasising the fact that justice has nothing to do with gender, the Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Asif Saeed Khosa announced that the Supreme...
Why a coaching culture and not any other culture?
“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?”
“That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,”...
Only 3.5% joblessness in the US, 5.28 lakh jobs added in...
While recession has not set in yet, it may not be too far away either feel some experts. At a time when economists were...
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Shell earns bumper profits, gives 8% bonus to staff
There is much reason for the 82,000-strong workforce of Shell to rejoice. The energy company has witnessed record profits, and has decided to give...
How to keep existing employees engaged amidst mass layoffs
Globally, layoffs are happening in every other company. The fear of recession has caused many big brands such as Microsoft, Google, Tesla, Twitter, Netflix...
Amazon India lets students shadow its senior leaders for a day
In a bid to help develop and nurture future leaders, Amazon India has announced its unique initiative, ‘ADayAtAmazon’. Under this initiative, two selected B-school...
Flipkart to train artisans, PwDs to grow business via e-commerce, create jobs
Flipkart, the Indian e-commerce marketplace, has signed an agreement with the district administration of Varanasi, Government of Uttar Pradesh, to enable national market access...
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“The big change has been that we have moved from jobs to skills,” Amaresh...
Q. How would you define the culture at GE?
A. Having been present in this region since 1902, GE has been around for 120 years....
“Being good to everyone is being unjust to performers,” Mathew Job, CEO, Crompton
Q. In today’s times, what’s more challenging for a CEO like you — profit & business growth, talent & people, diversification, compliance or managing...
“A CEO needs to acknowledge the silent majority who create the company’s fortunes” S...
Q. RPG is a diversified group with businesses spread across sectors and domains. however, its brands have a strong individual identity unlike other business...
