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No ADA Accommodation Leads to Seizure, Hospitalization for Diabetic Worker
Can a manager legally keep his employee, who has diabetes, from testing her blood sugar? Read this and other recent discrimination cases.
Read MoreAsk the White Guy: Black Troublemaker or Honest Broker?
A reader asks: "Does it make me a troublemaker if I point out that promotions are going to lesser-qualified white people?"
Read MorePresente.org Seeks Signatures for Petition to Restore Mexican-American Studies in Tucson
Tucson's school board has cancelled the district’s high-school Mexican American Studies program and forcibly banned a series of books dealing with race. This letter details how you can help.
Read MoreWhy Is Global Diversity So Difficult?
What are the prime challenges facing global businesses today that hinder inclusion efforts? What best practices are being implemented globally, and what can you learn from other companies? See what our exclusive research in 17 countries finds.
Read MoreIs Professor’s ‘Hi, Sweetie’ Comment Sexual Harassment?
Or did his chin-chucking simply spark an overreaction? Is a barista with dwarfism dangerous to employees and customers? Read these cases and more.
Read MoreThe 3 Top Reasons Companies Participate in the DiversityInc Top 50
Hundreds of companies have filled out the DiversityInc Top 50 survey for the past 12 years. Where’s the benefit? Executives from Aetna, Kraft and CVS Caremark weigh in.
Read MoreHow Kraft Increased Promotions of Women in Sales by 39%
Employee-resource groups are increasingly critical to companies’ bottom lines. Dell, JCPenney, Kraft Foods and Toyota offer 12 innovative, case-study examples of how to leverage employee-resource groups to increase profits and customer loyalty and enhance talent pipelines.
Read MoreWant to Be a Better Manager? What Family Can Teach
PricewaterhouseCoopers Chief Diversity Officer Maria Castañón Moats thought her career was at an end when she had a child and her father turned ill. Here’s how this line partner used her personal experiences to excel as an executive.
Read More‘You Can’t Afford to Be Dismissing People’s Ideas’
Here's how one CEO put his worldview into action: An interview with Tom Voss, CEO, Ameren.
Read MoreAsk The White Guy
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Did the Fed’s Stunning Lack of Diversity Cause the Housing Crisis?
Without a diversity-management structure, there are no checks and balances in place....Read More
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Ask the White Guy: Black Troublemaker or Honest Broker?
A reader asks: "Does it make me a troublemaker if I point out that promotions are going to lesser-qualified white people?"...Read More
Employee-Resource Groups
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Employee-Resource Groups: Results You Can Actually Measure
Real benefits make a case for this strategy to become a business standard....Read More
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Retention: 5 Strategies to Maximize Employee Loyalty
This Latino employee-resource group kept its talented managers from leaving because of cultural gaps. What can you learn from their experience? ...Read More
Global Diversity
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Why Is Global Diversity So Difficult?
What are the prime challenges facing global businesses today that hinder inclusion efforts? What best practices are being implemented globally, and what can you learn from other companies? See what our exclusive research in 17 countries finds....Read More
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What Clinton’s Global LGBT-Rights Speech Means for Your Company
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s support of LGBT rights in every country opens the door for companies to be more openly inclusive. How is this likely to unfold, and what can your company do now?...Read More
Diversity Events
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Talent Development & Mentoring: How to Find & Develop Hidden Gems
Ron Glover, vice president, diversity and workforce policy, human resources, IBM, speaks at DiversityInc's Networking Lunch about talent management strategies and best practices to develop a diverse and qualified workforce....Read More
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CEO Commitment: Why Visibility & Accountability Matter
Billie Williamson, recently retired Americas Inclusiveness Officer, Ernst & Young, leads a discussion on how senior executives should be held responsible for results, and why their visibility helps middle managers buy in to diversity goals....Read More
Disability
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Update on Giant Walmart Gender-Disparity Case, Plus Sex, Age & Disability Discrimination
Was “Good riddance, b----!” sexual harassment when a male coworker shouted this to a female financial adviser who had just resigned? Read this and other discrimination cases....Read More
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Disability Mentoring Day Helped New Jersey Students and Veterans Prepare for Workforce
East Hanover, New Jersey – (Oct. 27, 2011) – Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation (NPC) hosted 50 high school students, college undergraduates, and veterans with disabilities on October 19, National Disability Mentoring Day, for a hands-on career exploration event....Read More
LGBT
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Civil-Rights Progress: Helping LGBT Youth
GLSEN’s Executive Director Dr. Eliza Byard notes how Dr. King’s message that Black people would eventually reach the promised land is a reminder today that progress, no matter how slow, is crucial. ...Read More
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Safe LGBT Spaces: What Schools Can Learn From Employee-Resource Groups
GLSEN’s Dr. Eliza Byard, executive director, shows how employee-resource groups, like gay-straight alliances, can transform workplace experiences for people from traditionally underrepresented groups....Read More
Mentoring
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Talent Development & Mentoring: How to Find & Develop Hidden Gems
Ron Glover, vice president, diversity and workforce policy, human resources, IBM, speaks at DiversityInc's Networking Lunch about talent management strategies and best practices to develop a diverse and qualified workforce....Read More
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Networking & Sharing on ERGs, Diversity Councils, CEO Commitment, Talent Development, Mentoring
Chief diversity officers from American Express, KPMG, Ernst & Young and IBM lead real-world discussions of the best practices and greatest concerns on critical diversity-management areas....Read More
Supplier Diversity
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Is Walmart’s Women’s Initiative for Real?
Walmart has announced a multi-billion-dollar global women’s plan. What motivated the company to empower and reach its predominantly female global customers?...Read More
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Why Does the Fed Have So Little Supplier Diversity?
Compelled by a Freedom of Information Act request to release its supplier-diversity data, the Federal Reserve shows some disappointing numbers. See our interview with the man who forced the Fed to go public....Read More
Things Not to Say
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‘But You Look So Good!’ and 7 Other Things NOT to Say to a Person With a Non-Visible Disability
If you have a friend, relative or coworker with an illness or disability that isn't obvious, you may think you're doing the right thing by saying he or she "looks so good." You can't even tell the person has a disability, and that's a good thing, right? Wrong....Read More
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5 Things NEVER to Say to Muslim Coworkers
"I didn't know you were Arab." Find out what other culturally insensitive comments people make to colleagues of the Islamic faith....Read More
Diversity Consulting & Benchmarking
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Making Sense of Diversity Management
How do you make sense of what’s evolving in diversity management and what best practices are working for other companies? We’ve turned DiversityIncBestPractices.com into a “living textbook” that will give you a clear roadmap of what to do....Read More
Diversity Facts
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Where’s the Diversity in Fortune 500 CEOs?
There's a dearth of Black, Latino, Asian and women CEOs running major companies—but the DiversityInc Top 50 companies have better stats....Read More
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Disability Employment Awareness Month Facts & Figures
This pool of talent is drastically underutilized. Read these facts and figures on the history and employment of people with disabilities....Read More
Diversity in Education
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Presente.org Seeks Signatures for Petition to Restore Mexican-American Studies in Tucson
Tucson's school board has cancelled the district’s high-school Mexican American Studies program and forcibly banned a series of books dealing with race. This letter details how you can help....Read More
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How to Get 150 Top-Performing Black and Latino Candidates Now
With a global war for talent heating up, Ernst & Young’s leaders are proactively developing future accounting professionals at both the student and educator level....Read More
Diversity in HealthCare
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What Makes Kaiser Permanente Score With Employees, Customers?
The president and COO of Kaiser Permanente reveals the best practices that helped it climb to the top of The DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity list....Read More
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Video of 2011 DiversityInc Special Awards: Kaiser Permanente
Kaiser Permanente's Chuck Columbus, chief human resources executive and senior vice president, accepts the 2011 Special Award for Top Company for Executive Development....Read More
Diversity Leadership
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Want to Be a Better Manager? What Family Can Teach
PricewaterhouseCoopers Chief Diversity Officer Maria Castañón Moats thought her career was at an end when she had a child and her father turned ill. Here’s how this line partner used her personal experiences to excel as an executive....Read More
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‘You Can’t Afford to Be Dismissing People’s Ideas’
Here's how one CEO put his worldview into action: An interview with Tom Voss, CEO, Ameren....Read More
Diversity Management
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‘You Can’t Afford to Be Dismissing People’s Ideas’
Here's how one CEO put his worldview into action: An interview with Tom Voss, CEO, Ameren....Read More
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Increasing Diversity in Talent Development
The most prevalent issue we have heard about for the past two years, from companies at every stage of diversity management, is talent development. The increasing challenge of finding the right people, engaging and retaining them, and having them maximize their potential to create innovative business solutions is a global issue as everybody competes for the best people. ...Read More
Diversity Recruitment/ Retention
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How to Get More Women in Sales
Five strategies to get women to stay and flourish in high-pressure, high-mobility sales jobs. ...Read More
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Retention: 5 Strategies to Maximize Employee Loyalty
This Latino employee-resource group kept its talented managers from leaving because of cultural gaps. What can you learn from their experience? ...Read More
Diversity Training
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‘Blacks Should Not Be Satisfied With Food Stamps’: The Danger of Stereotypes
Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum are the latest politicians to perpetuate negative stereotypes about Blacks. Dr. Claude Steele, educator and expert on stereotypes, gives advice on the dangers of these kinds of misstatements, their impact on the workplace and how to handle them. ...Read More
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How Does DiversityInc Determine the Top 50?
Can you game the DiversityInc Top 50? CEO Luke Visconti provides inside info on what you can–and can't—do....Read More
Affirmative Action
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What Dr. King Really Meant: The Obligation That Benefits Everyone
Why is the business case for diversity a reality and not just a theory? It is directly due to Dr. King and the civil-rights era, explains DiversityInc CEO Luke Visconti....Read More
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Why We Still Need Affirmative Action
A panel of civil-rights experts and lawyers, led by DiversityInc CEO Luke Visconti, told an audience of CEOs and senior executives that anti-affirmative-action activist Ward Connerly fails to recognize the damaging extent of past racism or that contemporary institutionalized racism is pervasive and powerful. They spoke after Connerly addressed the audience....Read More
Legal Issues
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No ADA Accommodation Leads to Seizure, Hospitalization for Diabetic Worker
Can a manager legally keep his employee, who has diabetes, from testing her blood sugar? Read this and other recent discrimination cases....Read More
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Is Professor’s ‘Hi, Sweetie’ Comment Sexual Harassment?
Or did his chin-chucking simply spark an overreaction? Is a barista with dwarfism dangerous to employees and customers? Read these cases and more....Read More




























