Despite gender equality progress being made in many male-dominated fields, some professions like longshoring are still difficult for women to break into.
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It’s important that employers and employees understand sympathy, empathy and compassion, and consider these emotions’ roles in both job performance and employee relations.
Businesses can now pass credit card surcharge fees along to their customers. To help businesses predict how consumers will react to credit card surcharges, behavioural economics offers some answers.
Saying that the climate problem is complex is false, and a distraction from what we know needs to be done.
Multi-stakeholder initiatives have the potential to help businesses tackle social and environmental issues, but they need to ensure that all members have their voices heard.
As Canada offers international students additional pathways to residency, we must improve support and retention strategies if we expect students to contribute to our sustained growth.
Transparency in financial disclosure is a crucial part of ethical, responsible governance. Unless Hockey Canada prioritizes financial transparency, any attempts at reform will fall short.
Community wealth building is a direct response to extractive policies and aims to build an economy on the principles of local ownership and control of assets.
Sen. Rosa Galvez has called for ambitious and coherent government intervention to address the risks financial institutions pose to climate. Here’s why Canadians must rally around her.
A recent study about hiring practices sheds light on why some jobs change between when a decision is made to hire someone, and the actual hiring process itself.
A third platform for ordering cannabis in Ontario provides little to no benefit to consumers or retailers.
There have been calls for a culture change at Hockey Canada in the wake of sexual abuse allegations. But what does that mean? And how do organizations change their culture?
Canada is well positioned to gain far-reaching economic and social benefits from the rapidly developing quantum industry, but it must act now to secure its success.
Because central banks delayed interest rate increases early in the pandemic, they have spent 2022 playing catch-up with runaway inflation.
Puma’s support for Israeli football teams in the occupied Palestinian territories goes against FIFA’s rules.
Locals from Asunción Mita, Guatemala recently voted against the development of mining activities in their municipality, in a referendum contested by a Canadian mining company that owns a gold mine.
Contrary to popular belief, boards of directors are not the ones who establish whistleblowing procedures. Instead, boards depend on their management teams to implement them.
Two new studies highlight the importance of social connection in the workplace and illustrate why working from home may not be the optimal workplace arrangement.
Contrary to anti-work narratives in the news media, a survey of employees in the United States and Canada has found that most employees like their bosses.
The impact of oil sanctions on Russia is limited compared to the severe repercussions they have on the global economy and other countries’ abilities to achieve energy security and transition.
Augmented reality (AR) uses wearable tech to enhance the physical world. To develop and enhance AR experiences, companies are tracking users’ eye movements, which may be more revealing than intended.
Provincial governments should follow the federal government’s lead by revisiting their cannabis policies to improve them.
By giving up on corporate responsibility, Patagonia’s founder undermines current strides toward ethical capitalism.
If post-secondary institutions want to continue to play a key role in innovation and entrepreneurship, they must transform for the better.
Whether or not Patagonia’s recent move will have a lasting impact on business responsibility will depend on how it balances its environmental impacts with the social good it carries out.