Description of the laboratory skills ( Lab'InSight Gestion des âges en entreprise 22/04/2013)

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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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4. 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).

9. 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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10. • 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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11. 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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12. 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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13. 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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14. 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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15. 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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16. 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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18. 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