Prank Culture and Sexual Harassment at the Workplace: Why It’s No Laughing Matter
In the changing landscape of today’s workplaces, a thriving company culture often includes camaraderie and humour. However, there’s a fine line between harmless fun and actions that can cause significant harm.
Prank culture, particularly when it crosses into the realm of harassment, needs to be addressed seriously as per the guidelines set by the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace...
Discrimination, Bias and Exclusion – Lessons from Mahabharata
Diversity and Inclusion are two valuable pillars of successful management. It not only ensures equal rights to all the potential choices, but also brings a lot of creativity, different viewpoints, and shared knowledge to the table.
These principles of Diversity and Inclusion are not just restricted to corporate organizations, but every form of management to ever exist in human history. To...
Initiatives that Increase Women’s Ratios at Managerial Levels
The banter of excited friends meeting at their 10th year reunion filled the college lawn. Gautam, a classic backbencher and now Marketing Director took this opportunity to flippantly tease his batchmate Neetu, presently the AVP-HR of a prominent bank.
Gautam angled – ‘Neetu, I heard that women in the Banking industry are getting promoted for their gender?’
Neetu – ‘Promoting...
Benefits of a diverse organisation
Benefits of a diverse organisation
We live in a land of diversity. Organizations in this country have employees from different religions, speaking diverse languages, belonging to various castes, regions of origin and even dissimilar sexual orientation. More women have entered the workforce, and those with a physical disability are beginning to find a place for themselves. To top it off, 65%...
Survey on Prevention of Sexual Harassment Act, India
December 2013 saw the birth of the Anti-Sexual Harassment Act or ASH as it has come to be known in corporate parlance. With the government now recognising harassment of employees in the workplace as a crime, every organisation began to focus on calibrating their internal processes for channelizing any reported incidents. Every organisation with more than 10 employees has to form an Internal...
