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Etudes sur le genre et la diversité en gestion (EGiD)

HEC

ULg, LIEGE

Annie CORNET Professeure ordinaire

Lab’Insight « LA GESTION DES ÂGES EN ENTREPRISE » Gembloux, le 22 avril 2013

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Annie Cornet • Sociologist;

• Master (3d degree in management);

• Thesis in management (business school of university of Liège – in 1998) – BPR (organizational change – reengineering);

• Teacher in Hec Montréal 2000-2001;

• Visiting teacher in entrepreneurship in Simmons business school – Boston march - june 2012.

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EGiD- History

• Created in 2001 (return of Hec Montreal);

• Begining of diversity management in Europe:

– Nobody in this subject in french management school (Belgium, France, Switzerland);

– Gender issues in business and intersectionnality;

– Diversity management so HRM policies / work organization (discrimination but also business case).

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Researches

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• Researches / action researches for UE, politic administration (federal, regional, local);

• Consultancy for firms or public administration;

• Doctorate students;

• Chair (financed by firms GDF-SUEZ (energy) / SNCB (railways), Mobistar (telecommunications) on diversity and social innovation.

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Diversity management policies in public and private firms

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Governemental project (regional level) with an ONG working with foreigner people / trade unions / public agency for employment

• Actions to sensitive firms to make some actions for diversity (conferences, etc.);

• Manuel on diversity management: best practises (2 ed.);

• Concept management book (Dunod): why (action logics) / for who / how / dilemmas);

• A case book (for the end of 2012).

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Diversity management policies in public and private firms

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- Chair on “diversity and social innovations” – 3 firms

• Gender issues;

• Integration for cultural/ ethnic workforce with low level of qualification;

• Doctorate student : Meidhi Kherroubi.

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- Partnership with an flemish university (Hasselt) / P. Zanoni (critical studies):

• Divex - (english) sub-group on gender and diversity management (2 years) – meeting with researchers in diversity management (Flanders - dutch part of Belgium, Nederland, Germany)

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Diversity management – links with France

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• AGRH – (french) sub-group on gender and diversity management (5 years) – meeting with researchers in French business school who worked on these subjects;

• AFMD (Association of diversity managers):

– One group about diversity management in social relations

• Chair Diversity in Dauphine (Paris) with J.F. Chanlat and Mustafa Ozbilgin (University of London).

Women entrepreneurship

• Profile of the women entrepreneurship in Wallonia (french part of belgium) / quantitative – qualitative);

• Network;

• Training (on-line course – UE project);

• Facebook use in business;

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• Worklife balance in UE countries;

• Thesis:

• Christina Constantidinidis: Gender analysis of women entrepreneurship (cf Ahl) – 2011;

– Salman Noura: women entrepreneurship in Marocco - in progress.

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Women workforce • Network of women in management position;

• Women housewifes : why, what they are doing (new competencies), return to work;

• Women in management position;

• Gender diversity / mixity;

• Doctoral thesis:

– Françoise Grodent (in progress): Men and women managers: comparison of career management between generation (baby-boomer, X, Y);

– Sonja Hajjar: position of women senior accountant in lebanese firms.

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Gendered public policies

• Genderbudgeting;

• Gendermaintreaming:

– Manuel for political people and administration employees;

– Training.

• President / member, since 8 years, of a regional consultative council about equality between men and women for regional governement.

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Corporate social responsability

– Linked with diversity management: social policies;

– Implication and partnership with stakeholders in certification context;

– Doctoral thesis: Manal El Abboubi (2010).

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Age management • Phoenix and Generation + projects: UE;

• Position of seniors in firms – low rate of employment in Belgium / highest rate of discrimination in recruitment;

• Sensibilize firms in age management and senior retention (conferences, etc.);

• Manuel of good practises (end 2012);

• Generation C (<25) linked with training (public agency in employment).

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Generation Plus Project

Financing by FSE;

Partenarship : FOREM Public service for employment / HEC-ULG – business school;

Objectives:

– To maintain in employment 45 + by an adapted GRH and competences management;

– To make become aware by the companies of the importance of age management;

– Sustain transgenerationnel transfert.

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Tools for the analysis and diagnosis:

Analysis of the ages pyramids by service, functions, sexe;

Needs in competencies for the next year;

HRM politicies linked with age and sex.

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Guide

Auto-diagnostic

Best practises in age

management Case studies

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CONTACT LABO

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Université de Liège HEC Management School Etudes sur le genre et la diversité en gestion (EGiD) Place du Vingt Aout 7 4000 Liège http://www.ulg.ac.be

Annie CORNET Professeure ordinaire

annie.cornet@ulg.ac.be