Feature Articles
Presidential Campaign Is Diversity as Usual
Over the past few decades diversity has moved beyond race and gender to include religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and diversity of thought. Although similar issues have come up during the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign, experts say that race and gender continue to have the biggest impact in the campaign—and the workplace.
Root Out Unconscious Bias To Create an Inclusive Workplace
Biases, whether positive or negative, affect human behavior. That’s why HR and diversity professionals must understand how to identify and counteract the beliefs that contribute to bias.
Report Highlights Future Directions for Diversity Management
The field of diversity and inclusion (D&I) is at an important crossroad, but much progress has been made, suggests a new publication from the Society for Human Resource Management that summarizes input from more than 100 thought leaders from around the world.
Four Critical Global Workforce Diversity Strategies
Ted Childs, former vice president of Global Workforce Diversity at IBM, describes four goals of a diversity strategy and why they matter.
CEOs Drive Diversity, Inclusion, Report Finds
HR professionals generally agree that CEO support is critical for the success of any major organizational change effort. Less clear is exactly what that support needs to look like to guarantee results.
Feds Make Progress Toward Diversity Goals
During the past 10 years, Hispanics and women have made the most gains in securing senior level positions in the federal government, according to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) Annual Report on the Federal Work Force for Fiscal Year 2007.
Protecting GLBTs from Discrimination Makes Business Sense
Gays and lesbians have garnered the support of the largest corporations in the United States looking to improve their public image, widen their consumer base, and strengthen their inclusion of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) community in the workplace.
Research: Low Expectations Limit Women’s Results
Low expectations for female executives continue to exist in the executive suite and on the golf course, according to two studies presented during the 2008 Academy of Management Annual Meeting. This is one explanation for the earnings imbalance between men and women, researchers suggest.
Many Ways To Attract Diverse Applicants
Should an organization hire minority candidates first, and then make sure the work environment adapts to welcome them, or should the organization make the work environment inclusive and then begin to recruit?
Congressional Offices Look To Make Their Staffs More Diverse
Diversity among employees of congressional offices has never been a terribly high priority on Capitol Hill—until now.
Drafted into Diversity
When Master Sgt. Greg Jenkins, a military combat engineer, received notification that he was going to be trained to become an Equal Opportunity Advisor, he was as unenthusiastic as many young men drafted to U.S. military service in the 1960s. “I went in kicking and screaming,” he says.
Advice for New Diversity Practitioners
No matter what circumstances propel a diversity practitioner into their role, experts agree there are a few things every practitioner needs to do to increase their likelihood of success in what many say is a very challenging field.
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