Over the years I have heard many people refer to themselves and/or others as a specific personality type – as defined after doing some ‘psychometric testing.’ I won’t argue or debate whether anyone should be neatly packed into a box labelled Type A (i.e.,...
You may have read the viral post from LinkedIn by Natasha Bowman that described hiring people who “didn’t shake my hand firmly during the interview … had four kids … or was over 60 years old” – and how those people were fantastic on the job. Her LinkedIn post...
Scapegoating and the glass cliff may sound like something made up or exaggerated. Unfortunately, for the victims and those who value fairness, they are real phenomena. Scapegoating and glass cliff scenarios slyly work their destructive magic within a workplace. In...
Indeed, the times, they are a changing … Bob Dylan sang it during a pivotal moment in political history back in 1964, and it seems that message is still current and relevant. We live in an era of rapid change, where each day it’s out with the old and in with the new....
Last week’s blog Where Human Rights Meets Human Resources (Part 1) was an insightful Q&A. I asked Alayna Miller, an Employment and Human Rights Lawyer (formerly) with Mann Lawyers about the interconnected topic of human rights and human resources, particularly as...
Human resources and human rights are interconnected and stories invoking them together have been prominent in recent news. Last month Dr. Helen asked Alayna Miller, an Employment and Human Rights Lawyer (formerly) with Mann Lawyers, about some of these news stories in...
