![]() “We found a bleak story for multicultural Australia…Australian society may not be making the most of its cultural diversity…Professionals from culturally diverse backgrounds report that organisations understand leadership in ways that privilege ‘Anglo’ cultural styles”. The study discovered that even though over 32 percent of the Australian population had a non-Anglo-Celtic background, cultural diversity is not represented at senior levels of business administration or public service. The article was reporting on the release on the 29th of August 2016 of the Human Rights Commission’s study Leading for Change: A blueprint for cultural diversity and inclusive leadership), which in a study of leadership trends in Australian business and educational institutions, revealed a pervasive bias against those of Asian, Indian, Middle Eastern, African, Pacific Island and Latin American descent. ![]() ![]() A front page story by Nicole Hasham in Melbourne’s daily broadsheet The Age on July 28 2016, ran under the headline ‘A bleak story: Human Rights Commission finds major bias against non-European Leadership’. ![]()
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