Are SA Asset Managers any good at hiring for diversity, equity and inclusion?
In her latest column for Citywire, Phryne Williams asks what the industry could be doing better to develop truly inclusive cultures. View this Article on LinkedIn Across the western world, asset management companies, which are traditionally white-male dominated, are under sustained pressure to achieve measurable diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) results. This is not just […]
The Perils of Paying Lip Service to Work-Life Balance
It’s true that the responsibility for maintaining a decent work-life balance largely lies with the individual who is making the choices about how to spend their time? That said, there are many instances when the politics, culture or workings of an organisation can relentlessly derail the best work-life balance intentions of their most responsible leaders […]
Can you Change an Awful Company Culture?
So, you have realised that your organisation is actually a sub-performing ‘hotshot’ – behind the hype and pompous industry standing, your company culture actually sucks
Is Your Company Culture World Class?
Corporate culture is as much a key driver of a business’ success, as it is of it’s failure. World class organisations are known for strong corporate cultures that are client centric, employee focused, properly attuned to their business environments and adaptable in the face of change. Corporate culture exists in all organisations, whether by thoughtful and careful design or by default, as a result of organic growth. The culture can be described as the shared, embedded, unspoken assumptions that a group holds which implicitly direct them as to how they perceive and respond to the environments in which they operate. Culture incorporates values, goals, attitudes, practices and habits. This means that leadership can deliberately change corporate culture by introducing and cultivating values, goals, attitudes, practices and habits which result in better ways of perceiving and reporting to the business environment.