In Indonesia, severe public penalties are inflicted upon people found to be in same-sex relationships.
Beawiharta Beawiharta/Reuters
LGBTI employees relocating for a foreign assignment are likely to experience additional hardships compared to the typical expatriate.
This architectural rendering of the ‘Zen room’ in Accenture’s new Melbourne offices is an example of companies creating more modern and alluring workplaces to attract top talent.
Supplied by Accenture
Top-end companies are investing in design features to make their offices more appealing to staff. But many workers are looking for more than just funky design from their workplaces.
Intercultural relations between manager can be a difficult art.
Shutterstock
French managers often envision relations with their international partners in distinct – and not always ideal – ways. A specialist in cross-cultural relations looks at what can be done.
Shutterstock
Should you be worried that tech giants are making huge investments in cultural content?
CANARYLUC/Shutterstock
Too much money, too few targets. Is the golden child of the 1980s starting to look long in the tooth?
Singapore 2010 Youth Olympics/Flickr
The choke factor is visible in tournament-style athletics competitions, and should teach managers about incentives.
There are a number of examples of what were once co-operatives restructuring into, or being taken over by, listed companies.
Tim Green/Flckr
Despite the pressure for co-operatives to fold into the dominant corporation model, these business models are still worthy.
file y c.
The development of robots’ capacities and their increasing presence in companies isn’t just a matter of technology. It also profoundly changes the strategies, structures and human skills required.
ESB Professional/Shutterstock
The UK lags behind poor nations when it comes to young business owners, so what’s stopping them taking the plunge.
If the government expanded the new $73 million Student Work-Integrated Learning program to all students it could help tackle Canada’s most intractable social problems — such as homelessness, reconciliation with Indigenous peoples, affordable housing, social cohesion and intercultural understanding.
A new government program will create 10,000 work placements for undergraduates in only business and STEM subjects. Why not fund students to innovate in the social sector too?
Tesco PLC/Flickr
Dave Lewis has dragged the supermarket clear of an accounting scandal. Now for the hard bit …
shutterstock.com
Employees increasingly want jobs that they care about and find fulfilling. Buddhism can help companies make this a reality.
(Paul Schiraldi/HBO)
“Gritty,” “authentic” are words of praise often used for TV director David Simon: No less so with The Deuce, his new series about the rise of the porn industry in New York City in the 1970s.
Naruedom Yaempongsa/Shutterstock
Politicians need to get serious about the steady drip of scandals.
The latest trend in the video gaming industry is the creation of “whales,” people so addicted to games that they spend their entire life savings to keep playing.
A3250/_Oliver Berg
The video gaming industry has transitioned from a group of backyard innovators to an industry of multi-billion dollar companies.
Chains of employment.
Shutterstock
Supply chains are much clearer than they used to be but the same can’t be said about labour.
Most Australian media companies, including the national broadcaster, are enamoured by the sugar hit of audience reach.
Dan Peled/AAP
Building a journalism business model on clicks, cats and Kardashians may have had its day — even as journalists change to keep audiences happy
Recommended books offer a path to success for everyone, writes Michael Armstrong.
Shutterstock
Practical reads to propel you to professional success.
Andrey_Popov/Shutterstock
Workers will soon get to see just how fat the fat cats have become.
NadiaMaha/Shutterstock
‘Gabrielle’ the perfume harks back to Coco’s early days and the business instincts that built a global brand.