http://www.diversityinc.com/leadership/diversity-management-how-walmarts-chief-diversity-officer-gets-talent-development-results/ DiversityInc: Diversity and the Bottom Line Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:27:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.diversityinc.com/leadership/diversity-management-how-walmarts-chief-diversity-officer-gets-talent-development-results/comment-page-1/#comment-8473 Grannybunny Wed, 01 Aug 2012 12:50:16 +0000 http://diversityinc.com/?p=18389#comment-8473 A very good article, but Wal*Mart is a problematic situation. Those of us old enough to remember the time before the civil rights laws recall that they were passed to provide uniform, nation-wide, guidelines, since leaving decisions to the discretion of individuals resulted in the continuation of institutionalized discrimination. With the Dukes case — in which the Supreme Court struck down the class action certification for female employees suing Wal*Mart — things have come full circle. The Supremes found the case not suitable for a class action because Wal*Mart claimed it has no nation-wide policy about which the Plaintiffs could complain, and that personnel decisions were left to the discretion of individual managers and units, precisely the kind of situation that led to the need for civil rights laws in the first place.

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