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ADEL HIBA Maintenance Projects Engineer| Sarir Oil Operations B.V / Wintershall Dea Bonn, Germany
Many organizations are towards Gender equal opportunity and gender development and Sustainability project,. How would you describe and consider the gender sensitive Impact in such projects?
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PANKAJ KUMAR JOSHI General Manager| Transrail Lighting Limited Nainital, Uttrakhand, India
It is unethical to distinguish according to genders, if the skill is available equally. Normally if team is motivated the gender equality increases productivity.
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Sergio Luis Conte Helping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based Organizations Buenos Aires, Argentina
The best results I have got when I have the opportunity to lead projects and programs were with teams where both genders were present. It is amazing how men and women work together taking advantages of their natural differences. I have experienced that in multi-national multi-cultural teams. But it demands to be a leader with the enough ability to deal with this.
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Dec 31, 2015 12:59 PM
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So true. It goes without saying variation in skills and cultures and backgrounds leads to vastly improved results. It's one of those universal maxims.
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Sandilyan Ramadoss Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Gender doesn’t impact the project or its outputs, in fact, it creates a balance and provides equal opportunities, in a way or other, any weakness or strengths are being shared and balanced within Organization. There are other issues still pertaining and visible in some of companies, which are not exactly related to this topic but on different topic - cultural differences. We should not get confused with these 2 different topics. The later part commonly affects irrespective of gender in recent times.
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Steven Zachary Director| Alberta Health Services Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Nov 04, 2015 6:18 AM
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The best results I have got when I have the opportunity to lead projects and programs were with teams where both genders were present. It is amazing how men and women work together taking advantages of their natural differences. I have experienced that in multi-national multi-cultural teams. But it demands to be a leader with the enough ability to deal with this.
So true. It goes without saying variation in skills and cultures and backgrounds leads to vastly improved results. It's one of those universal maxims.
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Steven Zachary Director| Alberta Health Services Calgary, Alberta, Canada
I have a particular experience which applies to this. I had a team of 13 executives. When one female executive was brought in as her team was brought into scope the entire dynamic of the room changed.

I personally think balance is necessary but it's a very sensitive topic for most organizations.

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