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Combatting organizational silence: How to have an honest conversation

Hewlett Packard’s Santa Rosa Systems Division was formed to take HP into a new and growing internet market. Yet, two years later, growth and profits were so disappointing that the senior team thought they were six months from being replaced. What saved them? An honest conversation about what was going wrong and overcoming organizational silence.
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Policy priorities for gender and entrepreneurship

Read here about policy suggestions from an academic-practitioner collaboration for gender and entrepreneurship.

A crisis in workplace mental health injuries… And in work itself

Dr Mélanie Dufour-Poirier, Associate Professor at the University of Montreal’s School of Industrial Relations, discusses opportunities to safeguard employees’ mental health injuries and wellbeing through union involvement.
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Sex-based labour market segregation and women’s perceptions of entrepreneurship

Here Professors Tonoyan, Strohmeyer, and Jennings investigate sex-based labour market segregation and women's perceptions of entrepreneurship.
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The gender stereotyping of entrepreneurship

Professors Jennings and Tonoyan distill prior research and chart avenues for future research.
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Canadian workers at risk: Removing barriers to treatment for public safety professionals (PSP)

Gregory S Anderson, from Thompson Rivers University and Helen Dragatsi, from Government of Canada speak to us about removing barriers to treatment for Canadian workers at risk.

Confronting harassment and violence in Canadian workplaces: Insights and evolutions

Dr. Adriana Berlingieri, Research Associate and Barb MacQuarrie, Community Director at the Centre for Research & Education on Violence Against Women & Children in Canada, discuss the prevalence and impact of harassment and violence in the workplace.
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Closing the gap: Understanding and encouraging female entrepreneurship

Dr Elizabeth R. Moore, Head of Leadership at The University of Law Business School, provides a comprehensive analysis on bridging the gender gap to welcome more female entrepreneurship.
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Workers at risk: Families serving alongside

Heidi Cramm, Marilyn Cox, and Deborah Norris focus on the families of public safety personnel and health care workers (PSP and HCW), plus how the risks and requirements of the job impact them.
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Factors that contribute to the gender gap in entrepreneurial self-confidence

A study by Professors Dempsey and Jennings offers key insights into why women tend to be less confident than men in their entrepreneurial ability.
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Industrial organization: understanding the mechanisms of market structures

Patrick Legros, Professor of Econonmics at Université libre de Bruxelles, explores how Industrial Organization can help understand the positive and normative consequences of different...

Supporting ICT employment opportunities for women in Egypt

Ragui Assaad and Irene Selwaness examine the increase of women in ICT jobs in Egypt, as well as gender disparities and the efforts to promote ICT employment growth.
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Can “resilience” protect key workers from poor mental health?

First responders, other public safety personnel, and healthcare workers appear to be those most at risk of poor mental health following their occupations – but what does increasing resilience do, and how can governments protect their key workers?
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The IDEA Model: A best practice for data-driven strategic risk and crisis communication

Professors of Strategic Communication Dr. Deanna D. Sellnow and Dr. Timothy L. Sellnow explore strategic risk and crisis communication using the IDEA Model, a theoretically grounded tool for effective communication.

Demographic pressures on the Egyptian labour market

Ragui Assaad, Professor from Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota, explores the upcoming resumption of demographic pressures on the Egyptian labour market and what can be done about it.
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Workers at risk: How do traumatic jobs affect essential workers?

R. Nicholas Carleton and Gregory S Anderson analyse the workplace stressors and risks of public safety personnel and front-line healthcare workers.
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Exploring the entrepreneurial ability of women

Are women as under-confident in their entrepreneurial ability as we have been led to believe? Dr Jennifer E. Jennings from the University of Alberta investigates.

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