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How corporate positions on social issues affect the workplace culture

Erika Johnson, Forbes, 29 April 2021

Corporations are navigating the complexities of the social justice climate, aiming to balance their objectives with stakeholder demands for a more equitable and fair society for all. This is also influencing workplace culture. Work environments aren’t detached from the world, rather, they are “societal microcosms”. Hence, as political tensions...

How effective is your Board at elevating the stakeholder voice?

Australian Institute of Company Directors, 27 April 2021

The Australian Institute of Company Directors has developed a new guide to help directors identify and elevate key stakeholder voices to the Board. The guide explores the Board’s role in stakeholder governance; director’s legal duties; how Boards can balance the interests of stakeholders when…

From principle to practice: making stakeholder capitalism work

Vivian Hunt, Robin Nuttall & Yuito Yamada, McKinsey & Company, 26 April 2021

The principle of stakeholder capitalism requires business leaders to define their mission as creating long-term value not only for shareholders but also for customers, suppliers, employees, communities, and others. Stakeholder capitalism defines “value” in broader terms, and so, companies should understand who the stakeholders are; understand...

The return part 2: hitting the pandemic wall

This Working Life Podcast, ABC, 26 April 2021

In this episode of the This Working Life Podcast, organisational psychologist Michelle Morrison, and professor of leadership and management at Harvard Business School, Amy Emondson, explain how to best manage the psychological shift of returning to the office, despite feeling like we have run headlong into the pandemic wall. Also discussed is...

How do audiences decide what news to trust? Fairness and accuracy aren’t the only things that matter

Benjamin Toff, Sumitra Badrinathan, Camila Mont’Alverne & Amy Ross Arguedas, NiemanLab, 23 April 2021

A new Reuters Institute report finds editorial standards and journalistic practices may be less important for trust in news than audience impressions about brand reputations and the look and feel of how information is presented. The report finds that in today’s media landscape, many see digital platforms as places packed with unreliable,...

How to cut through the red tape to bring common sense back into your workplace

This Working Life Podcast, ABC, 12 April 2021

In this episode of This Working Life Podcast, Brand and culture transformation expert Martin Lindstrom explains how to bring common sense back into our workplaces by establishing what he calls a “ministry of common sense”. Martin speaks about his experience advising multinationals such as Pepsi, Google and, Burger King to…

‘Revitalize’

TED Radio Hour Podcast, NPR, 09 April 2021

On this episode of the TED Radio Hour podcast, TED speakers explore ways to revitalise our minds, bodies, buildings, and even populations. After an exhausting year for everyone…

The future of work - who will be the winners and losers?

Money Talks Podcast, The Economist, 06 April 2021

On this episode of the Money Talks Podcast, Simon Long talks to MIT labour economist, David Autor. The pair discuss how COVID-19 has fuelled an explosion of unemployment and a transformation in how people work. They also analyse the prospects of a continued working from home arrangement, and observe what…

What more than 32,000 people think about the future of work

Victoria Masterson, World Economic Forum, 01 April 2021

New data from PwC’s Hopes and Fears 2021 report, a survey of more than 32,000 workers across 19 countries, reveals, after a year that has had a huge impact on the world of work, half of workers still feel excited or confident about the future. However, 60 per cent are worried that automation is putting many jobs at risk, with 39 per...

Danone’s CEO has been ousted for being progressive - blame society not activist shareholders

Arturo Bris, The Conversation, 20 March 2021

Danone’s chief executive and chairman, Emmanuel Faber, is set to step down after activist shareholders called for his removal. The shareholder group have blamed Faber for “a combination of poor operational record and questionable capital allocation choices”. Namely, not being able to “strike the right balance between shareholder value creation...