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Why diversity never comes to some workplaces

Striving for greater diversity in the workplace – be it gender, race, age or experience levels among employees – is a long sought-after goal by business leaders looking for a competitive advantage.

Several studies show that companies with a diverse workforce are more likely to outperform others in the field. So, with so much on the line, why do so many firms still struggle with a lack of gender, race or age diversity within their ranks?

Published: 25 Feb 2016

Leveraging Peer Relationships for Retaining Women Engineers

Moving the focus from the individual to the social group offers novel and promising tools to help ensure the success and retention of entry-level women engineers. In recent years, SWE has endorsed and partnered with several researchers who focus on women’s lack of advancement in the engineering profession.

Published: 17 Feb 2016

Workforce diversity boosted by recommending a friend

Referring friends and associates for job vacancies can help to create a diverse workforce, a new study from the Desautels Faculty of Management at 91˿Ƶ finds.

Word-of-mouth recruitment, the most common way to fill jobs, has previously been thought to cause segregation at work: women tend to reach out to other women in their networks, and men do likewise.

Published: 3 Feb 2016

Workforce diversity boosted by recommending a friend

Workforce diversity boosted by recommending a friend

Referring friends and associates for job vacancies can help to create a diverse workforce, a new study from the Desautels Faculty of Management at 91˿Ƶ finds.

Word-of-mouth recruitment, the most common way to fill jobs, has previously been thought to cause segregation at work: women tend to reach out to other women in their networks, and men do likewise.

Published: 25 Jan 2016

Word-of-mouth leads to more diverse workforce says report

A study from the Desautels Faculty of Management at 91˿Ƶ has found referring friends and associates for job vacancies can help to create a diverse workforce.

Word-of-mouth recruitment, the most common way to fill jobs, had previously been thought to cause segregation at work: women tend to reach out to other women in their networks, and men do likewise.

Published: 25 Jan 2016

Tipping Points: The Gender Segregating and Desegregating Effects of Network Recruitment

Author: Brian Rubineau, Roberto M. Fernandez

Word-of-mouth recruitment is the most common way to fill jobs, and management scholars have long thought that this practice contributes to job segregation by gender: women tend to reach out to other women in their networks, and men do likewise.

Published: 22 Jan 2016

Majority of COC staff exposed to Marcel Aubut harassment: probe

An independent probe of alleged impropriety by former Canadian Olympic Committee president Marcel Aubut says a majority of the more than 100 staff members interviewed for the review experienced or saw sexual and personal harassment.

Published: 14 Jan 2016

Bureaux partagés

Entrevue avec Jean-Nicolas Reyt, professeur à la Faculté de management de l'Université 91˿Ƶ. Voir l'entrevue complet: RDI Economie, le 7 décembre 2015

Published: 18 Dec 2015

To thine own self be true?: Facades of conformity, values incongruence, and the magnifying impact of leader integrity

Authors: Burnett, M., Dumas, T., Hewlin, P.

Publication: Academy of Management

Published: 20 Nov 2015

Tipping Points: The Gender Segregating and Desegregating Effects of Network Recruitment

Authors: Fernandez, R. M. and Rubineau, B.

Publications: Organization Science

Published: 21 Oct 2015

Misfit and Milestones: Structural Elaboration and Capability Reinforcement in the Evolution of Entrepreneurial Top Management Teams

Authors: Ferguson, A. J., Cohen, L., Burton, M. D. and Beckman, C. M. Publication: Academy of Management Abstract:

Published: 27 Jul 2015

Bridging the Gap Between Gender and Leadership: Exploring the Real - Explicit and Implicit - Reasons Behind the Absence of Women on the 2014-2015 MUS Executive Council

91˿Ƶ Women in Leadership (MWIL), Deautels Women in Business (DWIB), TEDxMontreal Women, the National Women in Business Conference, the Intercollegiate Business Convention. Evidently, as the non-exhaustive list above demonstrates, there are many occasions for women at 91˿Ƶ to thrive and shine in the area of leadership, where they are chronically and critically underrepresented.

Published: 6 Feb 2015

Second Generation Bias: A Subtle but Powerful Presence

Deeply embedded and frequently unconscious cultural and organizational biases can be challenged both through small "wins" and by establishing policies that take a whole-organization rather than a women-only approach. Second-generation gender bias is making its way into the lexicon of women's workplace issues as a subtle, covert, and at times unintentional, phenomenon that thwarts women's power and potential. ...

Published: 6 Feb 2015

The Erosion of Expert Control Through Censure Episodes

Author: Huising, Ruthanne

Publication: Organization Science, November 2014 

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Published: 17 Dec 2014

Elite Business Magazine Nov 2014 - We need to create a level playing field

By: Lisa Cohen, assistant professor, Desautels Faculty of Management

Published: 6 Nov 2014

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