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Social Class In The C-Suite

The Horizons Tracker

It’s fair to say that class plays a significant role in whether people get into the C-suite or not. Indeed, research shows that workers from working-class backgrounds are over 30% less likely to be recruited into a managerial role than their middle-class peers.

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How Class Affects How We Collaborate

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Having a diverse workforce has numerous benefits to an organization, with MIT research highlighting that the most diverse workplaces tend to be the most profitable. A study from the University of Virginia Darden School of Business took this a step further and explored the impact of class diversity on the success of a team.

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Overcoming The Class Ceiling At Work

The Horizons Tracker

A couple of years ago I wrote about the value of having a workforce with a high degree of class diversity. This is far from easy to achieve, however, not least as Yale research shows that class bias can emerge as soon as we open our mouths. Overcoming the class ceiling. ” Emerging early. Advantages beget advantages.

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New Film Highlights The Work Needed To Overcome The Class Pay Gap

The Horizons Tracker

In the hit HBO/BBC drama Industry , aside from the general debauchery of the characters, one thing that’s noticeable is the upper-class backgrounds of the leads. Only Harry heralds from a working-class background, and he visibly struggles to fit in in a world in which the rest of the cast seems to know precisely how to speak and act.

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Strategic Leadership 2021: Lessons from Strategy Class

Lead Change Blog

When I taught a college course in strategic management, the notion of strategy as a fluid process rather than a static document created confusion for some of my students. The environment – within and outside your organization – is dynamic, and your team is the source of rich, diverse observation and interpretation of what the changes mean.

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Being Working Class In “Elite” Professions

The Horizons Tracker

At the back end of last year, I wrote about the “class gap” that exists in many professions. Indeed, so pronounced is this gap that the Social Mobility Foundation mark November 14, as this is the effective date at which working-class employees stop earning compared to their peers.

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Class Divides Who Is Working From Home During Covid

The Horizons Tracker

Firstly, societies around the world have lauded “key workers” in healthcare, logistics, food retail, refuse management, and so on, who have worked throughout the pandemic to keep society functioning, often putting themselves in harm’s way to do so. Class divide.

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