Organisations have come a long way today in ensuring congenial workplaces for women. However, there’s still a lot of gaps that need filling. With a goal to learn and advance by leveraging competencies, 7 organisations (Unilever, Grameenphone, BAT, Nestle, Robi, SCB and HSBC) have formed a cross-industry council and started an initiative called “Inspirit”. We sat with three representatives to explore the inspirations that paved the way for the initiative.

Workspaces are often designed with functionality as the primary objective; gender considerations are yet to be integrated into office design for a large number of organisations in Bangladesh. What follows is a set of extremely simple things that organisations can do to make the office a safe, women-friendly place.

More and more companies are seeing the increase of women in the workforce. Women are rising to the top levels of companies. An increasing number of companies are seeing the value of having more women in leadership roles, and they’re proving that they can make progress on gender diversity. This is an important step in the right direction.

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Each human being, as adventurous as they are, is tweaked in different ways and responds differently.

In your diverse career, what are your biggest achievements and setbacks?

Rather than just focusing on first-class results and valuable experiences, organisations are now testing candidates on their analytical skills. They want candidates who are capable of solving their problems effectively and efficiently.

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In a professional setting, it’s very important to correct others in a proper manner so that you don’t come across as a rude co-worker or a condescending know-it-all.

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The three-day long “Bangladesh Economics Summit” organised by Economics Study Center on the theme of “Inclusive growth and sustainable livelihood: In Bangladesh Perspective” began with the opening ceremony on 31st October 2019 at Muzaffar Ahmed Chowdhury Auditorium, Social Science Building, University of Dhaka.

Every year brings in unique and sometimes unusual trends in the workplace. These emerging workplace trends impact the business strategies and can bring about changes in the organisational culture. The dynamic clock speed of technology, demographic shifts, increasing mobility, etc. affect the business and subsequently the larger industries. Businesses today are adapting to these changes and trends.

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Performance appraisals are regular reviews of an employee’s job performance and overall contribution to a company with the aim of evaluating their skills, achievements and growth. Companies use these appraisals to understand employees’ strengths and weaknesses, provide feedback and development plans, and justify any promotion or termination decisions. Company policy decides how often they are conducted but they tend to be annual, semi-annual or quarterly. Here are a few steps to ace your next one.

Consider your boss to be just another assessment test or hurdle that you have to overcome in your job and see if meeting their choices or preferences can be foreseen with the amount of knowledge/insight you’ve gained thus far in the job. Is the boss quick to make decisions or rather slow? Do they keep to themselves or does communication come easy? Match your style with that of your manager, and you’ll get by better.

Gone are the days when sexism in the workplace was normalised, leading to a huge wage disparity along with all sorts of discrimination against women. Bangladesh is currently the country with the lowest gender pay gap among the lower middle income countries, according to ILO Global Wage Report 2018. But women, even till this day, are subject to a lot of sexist practices in their workplaces, which stem from the patriarchal thoughts and views that have been deeply rooted in our society for many years.

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Economics Study Center (ESC) is proud to present the 2nd Bangladesh Economics Summit (BES) 2019. The event will take place from October 31 to November 2, 2019 in the social sciences building at the University of Dhaka. After the event’s successful debut in 2018, ESC is determined to make the second season even grander.