Click here for the Friday Reading Search, a searchable archive of reading and knowledge resources

Since March 2020, Airmic has been issuing Friday Reading, a curated series of readings and knowledge resources sent by email to Airmic members. The objective of Airmic Friday Reading was initially to keep members informed during the Covid-19 pandemic. Today, Airmic Friday Reading has evolved in scope to include content on a wide range of subjects with each email edition following a theme. This page is a searchable archive of all the readings and knowledge resources that have been shared.

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Harvard Business Review, 25th January 2021
Friday Reading Edition 92 (4th February 2022)
[Limited free articles per month for non-subscribers] Psychological safety around risk reporting is, as a solid body of research indicates, essential to the speak-up culture that is the oxygen of risk management – how Swissgrid introduced two parallel risk management processes in its enterprise-wide system to identify and mitigate strategy risks, external risks, and novel risks.
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World Economic Forum, 25th January 2021
Friday Reading Edition 43 (29th January 2021)
From working in isolation to balancing work alongside caring responsibilities, the impact of COVID-19 has turned mental health into a top concern for employers around the world.
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World Economic Forum,Bloomberg, 25th January 2021
Friday Reading Edition 43 (29th January 2021)
This panel examines the most effective response and recovery efforts, with recommendations on how businesses and governments can improve and increase their collaboration.
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McKinsey & Co, 20th January 2021
Friday Reading Edition 63 (18th June 2021)
The post-pandemic recovery could be decisive in the fight against climate change. Our analysis illustrates how policy makers can bring economic, environmental, and social priorities together, through a case study of an anonymised European country.
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Airmic, 20th January 2021
Friday Reading Edition 45 (12th February 2021)
[For Airmic members only] In this Airmic LIVE episode from last month, BLM and Efficacy lead a unique group of experts who will join the dots between the clinical, legal and risk management of mental health in the workplace.
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Harvard Business Review, 14th January 2021
Friday Reading Edition 53 (9th April 2021)
The rate of disruption will potentially accelerate as the implications from 2020 play out across the next several years. Here are nine predictions from the chief of research for Gartner’s HR practice.
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Lloyd’s Register, 14th January 2021
Friday Reading Edition 43 (29th January 2021)
This report from Engineering X – a new international collaboration supported by the Lloyd's Register Foundation – shows the scale and complexity of the problem of the open burning of solid waste is poorly understood, and a diverse and inclusive community of practice needed to address the many safety challenges.
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CIPD, 6th January 2021
Friday Reading Edition 56 (30th April 2021)
How artificial intelligence (AI), robots and automation are shaping the world of work, the ethical considerations and the role of people professionals.
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Harvard Business Review, 4th January 2021
[Limited free articles per month for non-subscribers] Companies continue to rely on compliance tools such as codes of conduct and audits to get employees to report wrongdoing that they witness. But on their own, they are ineffective. Based on decades of behavioural science research and 30 years observing leaders, the author developed a model that offers seven interconnected strategies to nudge people to speak up.
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Oxfam, 1st January 2021
Friday Reading Edition 43 (29th January 2021)
The pandemic has the potential to lead to an increase in inequality in almost every country at once. Yet it has also shown us the vital importance of government action to protect our health and livelihoods – transformative policies that seemed unthinkable before the crisis have suddenly been shown to be possible.
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