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COUNTRY: GREECE SCHOOL: ALBA GRADUATE BUSINESS SCHOOL, THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF GREECE An eighth cohort of students has graduated from a specialised MBA co-created between Alba Graduate Business School and financial services firm, Eurobank. Kostas Axarloglou, Dean of Alba, expressed pride in a programme ‘with a significant impact that has already 250 Eurobank executives as graduates,’ before adding: ‘In close collaboration with Eurobank, the programme has evolved all these years along with the evolution of the financial industry and management science.’ The Eurobank – Alba MBA in Financial Services launched in 2003 as a leadership development initiative of the bank,
LGBT+ EMPLOYEES FEEL LESS SAFE AT WORK THAN HETEROSEXUAL COUNTERPARTS
COUNTRY: UK SCHOOL: UNIVERSITY OF BATH SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT
which has its headquarters in Athens, Greece. Eurobank CEO at the time of launch, Nicholas
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Nanopoulos, remarked that: ’Observing and understanding important developments in the domestic and international financial markets is better assured when we combine it with the acquisition of a solid educational background in a creative work environment.’ The programme was then fully redesigned in 2018 to encompass emerging approaches and trends in finance, such as agile project management, design thinking, fintech, and lean startup methodology. ‘We needed a programme that would be digitally imbued, a vital part of Eurobank Digitalisation Strategy, aiming to reskill and retool a new generation of Eurobank leaders; a programme designed as an opportunity to learn and grow rather than just an opportunity to advance. And a programme that would aim to create new waves of disruptive growth,’ explained Stavroula Papadopoulou, Head of the Learning Division at Eurobank. The latest programme ended with students presenting senior executives at Eurobank and its current CEO, Fokion Karavias, with their ideas for growth through digital transformation and blue ocean, disruptive innovation. Kyriakos Kyriakopoulos, Academic Director of the programme, said the latest crop of graduates were ready, ‘to act as game changers who wish to make an impact in Eurobank, in the era of digitisation and transformation disruption.’ / TBD
More needs to be done to ensure the safety of LGBT+ employees at work, according to new research launched by UK HR association, the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), and co-authored by Luke Fletcher, Senior Lecturer at the University of Bath School of Management. Key findings from Inclusion at work: Perspectives on LGBT+ working lives include the fact that 40% of surveyed LGB+ workers had experienced conflict in a 12-month period, with this conflict usually revolving around characteristics which are protected from employment bias by law in the UK (and which, for example, cover age, religion and sexual orientation). This is compared to 29% of heterosexual workers who reported experiencing conflict in the same period of time. Among trans workers, surveyed separately to LGB+ workers, 55% had experienced conflict within a 12-month period, with only half of these conflicts being resolved. In addition, 12% of trans workers reported experiencing unwanted sexual attention at work, and 2% reported experiencing sexual assault. The report suggests ensuring that policies are in place to allow LGBT+ workers to feel safe to report problems and to train managers to understand the unique challenges they face. There is also a recommendation that employers support individuals and not address LGBT+ as a homogeneous group. ‘The report highlights the different challenges and needs that groups in the LGBT+ spectrum experience. During the pandemic, blanket changes have come into place to protect employee wellbeing, but businesses must also think about how best to adapt broader policies and practices to specific minority groups,' said Fletcher. / EB
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