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DIVERSITY DELIVERS!
The Aziz Corporation calls for UK-based academic research into "the business case for diversity" as civil service officially launches new flexible working scheme.
Recent US-based research¹ shows that diversity does indeed pay - big time! Now it`s time to conduct academic UK-based research to support our belief that there is tremendous value in "diversity in business".
And not just in business, but also in the Public Sector. A new scheme to facilitate flexible working (a key tool in the quest for increasing diversity) across the whole civil service is officially launched today, and one of the guest speakers is The Aziz Corporation`s Diversity Consultant, Bella Mehta:
"Gender diversity being associated with increased sales revenue, more customers, and greater relative profits was just one of Professor Herring`s findings," says Mehta. It`s a hunch we`ve had for a while, but now Herring`s research is a fillip to the pro-diversity, pro-"flexible working" brigade who have long-felt that diversity adds value."
Professor Khalid Aziz,
Chairman of The Aziz Corporation, which conducted the survey as part of
the eighth annual Aziz Management Communications Index, comments:
“The days when merely speaking with ‘the right accent’ was a
prerequisite to rising in the business world are now all but gone,
although being an effective communicator is still paramount.”
“The rise of
Britain’s self-made men, often from working-class backgrounds, such as
BHS boss Philip Green or Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary reflects the
changing profile of the successful boss. These are people who aren’t
afraid to speak their minds, and are proud to make a virtue of the fact
that they have worked their way up from humble beginnings to positions
of influence. In both cases though, they are better known for their
forceful and charismatic personalities than for their class origins.”
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