Last week, I deliberated on the concept of fairness and how this differs in the labour relations sense from unfair discrimination. This week, my missive is prompted by yet another Tweet by a very influential twitterer, lamenting about how difficult it is to dismiss...
CURRENT HOT TOPIC: Marleen has been involved with many companies on training cultural sensitivity across industry and in many different organisations. In the first few years of our democracy, we pussy-footed round issues which are currently being openly, but...
“Have you ever left an interaction with someone who is not from your cultural group, wondering what just happened.? When you left, did you think? “Was that person just rude to me, or is it a ‘cultural thing?’
The Department of Labour published some proposed changes to the Employment Equity Regulations during November last year. This impacts the way businesses and organizations have to report by the 1st October 2009. One of the most important ways in which the regulations...
What happened to good old satire and metaphor in the past week? To listen to the controversy around depicting the justice system as a woman about to be raped, made me feel as though no one understands political satire anymore. The cartoon was designed to be...
When you ask people from different cultures, what they deem important about their values - most people will say: "respect". The truth is, that respect is not the same thing to all people. We have huge misunderstanding daily in South Africa on the basis of our...