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Corporate Sector’s Role in Enablement of Women Careers in India: An Empirical Study

The Indian Corporate Sector has wide opened its doors of opportunities to competent women professionals over the span of the last two decades. While the initial career phases are relatively smooth for a woman, it is after she enters the institution of marriage that balancing home and work begin to take a toll on her. […]

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Second career of women professionals in India: A Corporate Perspective

The increasing participation of women in the Indian workforce is a very laudable trend with liberalization, privatization and globalization friendly policies of the Indian Government having worked in its favour. However it has been found that a large number of Indian women employed in the corporate sector find a career break unavoidable due to the

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Generational Diversity in the Indian Workforce: An Exploratory Study

A population may be segmented based on age or experience with the intent of identifying attitudes and preferences that cohort members have in common due to their shared life events. This process of segmentation presents a classification of the subjects into generations distinct from each other. Most organizations in India currently employ men and women

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Less than half the Indian Cos. aware of ESG reporting mechanism

A recent report has revealed that less than half the companies are aware of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) reporting mechanisms and regulations in India. The Deloitte India report on ESG preparedness adds that just 27 percent of businesses are well-prepared to meet ESG requirements. The report further reveals that 83 percent of organizations have

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Viewport 2021: Chore Division & Dynamics at Indian Homes: An exploratory research during COVID times

When Avtar tried to find out why Indian women chose to quit work, work-life conflict, and lack of employer understanding of the same topped the list of reasons. This research was aimed at understanding if the COVID-19 phase has led to some course correction to it all, and if the near-universal remote work model has

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Case Study on enhancing awareness about biases through Non-conscious Bias Training

B-DivIne: Non-conscious Bias training The Scenario An Indian Multinational conglomerate with business interests across a wide range of industrial sectors like infrastructure, energy, steel and cement decided to focus on the issue of increasing gender diversity at their workplace. An important part of this strategic plan was to bring forth mindset change and behavioural change.

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Case Study on nurturing inclusive behaviors through Inclusion by design training

Inclusion by Design training The Scenario A multinational technology company in the space of business consulting and outsourcing, decided to move into a new business model, a matrix operational structure that comprised of several market development units dealing with different industry sectors like Retail, Manufacturing, BFSI, etc. The different units started working with the Service line

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Case Study: How ‘Benchmarking’ helped improve maternity retention for a Manufacturing giant

Benchmarking The Scenario         Knowledge of its market standing is critical for any business. The same goes for an organization’s DEI practices, to gauge its current positioning and implement the requisite measures of best practices followed in the market for effective results. A manufacturing giant wanted to start its DEI journey and wanted to begin by

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