No. 4: AT&T
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CEO Commitment for Diversity Management
What’s most remarkable is that a company this large has such consistently strong diversity-management efforts throughout all its locations. The reason for that starts at the top, with Chairman and CEO Randall Stephenson, who is a role model for CEO commitment. He is a very visible leader on both a corporate and a personal level (having been involved with multicultural and community organizations and having spearheaded Project Aspire, which stems the high-school dropout rate). He holds executives accountable for diversity goals and personally chairs the executive diversity council. |
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Diversity in Talent Development
The company is aggressively seeking talent from all groups through use of its online career portal and its sponsorship last year of more than 75 diversity conferences and career fairs enabling its recruiters to meet a diverse pool of candidates.
AT&T uses its resource groups to find talent and then help its employees reach their maximum potential. The company has an ERG Leadership Academy, in which all resource-group national leaders receive leadership-development training at AT&T University in a two-day, face-to-face session, which helps them align with the company’s business goals and strengthen skills such as team building, communications and leadership. More than 1,000 employees attended the Annual National ERG Conference in 2011. The Talent Management Program in 2011 included a Virtual Management Summit attended by more than 91,000 frontline managers and led by Stephenson and the senior-executive team. The summit focused on personal and professional growth as well as business acumen. AT&T has beefed up its mentoring program, adding resource-group-led mentoring circles, “Mentoring Moments” and “Morning Cup of Mentoring,” as well as virtual mentoring options. And AT&T has hosted a “Generations in Action” conference for the past two years. |
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Supplier Diversity
In addition, AT&T continues to have a world-class supplier-diversity program (the company is No. 2 in The DiversityInc Top 10 Companies for Supplier Diversity), which features cutting-edge ways to find and develop suppliers, such as the Power Up! Training to enable suppliers to use apps and technology to grow their businesses. That program was featured at DiversityInc’s Innovation Fest! |
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Company Information
U.S. Headquarters: Dallas Global Employees: 256,210 U.S. Employees: 247,799 Last Year’s DiversityInc Top 50 Ranking: No. 4 |
