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Catherine W. Ng

Senior Teaching Fellow, Department of Management and Marketing, Faculty of Business, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

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The best way to make your office more LGBT inclusive

What are the benefits for organizations to be LGBTQ-friendly? Are there costs involved in being supportive of sexual minorities at work? Many organisations believe, for example, that offering partner benefits to gay and lesbian employees increases their operational costs, and that workers will abuse these benefits. Is this a legitimate business concern? ...

Age discrimination is widespread but should be fought in the workplace

It’s perhaps ironic that we discriminate on the ground of age, because we all have been young and we’ll all grow old. Ageing is inevitable and universal. Age is different from, for example, gender or ethnicity in that generally speaking, we have no lived experience of other sexes and ethnicity, but we all have or will have experiences of other people’s ages. ...

Tips to help you manage millennial workforce

People grumble that the younger generation of workers are getting worse; that they are immature and irresponsible; that they don’t work hard enough; that they want quick results while not willing to put in the effort. Many feel that the “internet generation” is too used to instant gratification, and don’t persevere for more meaningful rewards. Are younger workers as bad as many of their supervisors and bosses’ complaints about them suggest? Many of the millennial generation don’t think so. ...