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Chairman, President and CEO Clay Jones remains heavily invested in the company’s diversity progress. He ties 15 percent of his direct reports’ bonuses to diversity and personally signs off on it. Bonuses account for half of executive compensation. Jones regularly attends the company’s resource groups’ functions and forums. He chairs the executive diversity council and tasks it with establishing and signing off on diversity goals and metrics. He also sits on the board of Diversity Focus, a nonprofit devoted to enhancing the diversity of the Cedar Rapids/Iowa City area. All of the company’s senior executives (levels 1 and 2) sit on boards of multicultural nonprofits.

Thirty-six percent of its managers participate in the company’s cross-cultural mentoring programs, including the top three levels of management. Rockwell Collins has eight resource groups it uses for talent development and mentoring. A senior executive is a member of each group.

Procurement-management compensation is tied to successful supplier-diversity results. The company’s projected spend with Tier I women-owned businesses was 5.8 percent, which was exceeded by an actual spend of 6.1 percent. Rockwell Collins provides mentoring, training, financial assistance and education to its diverse suppliers.

U.S. Headquarters: Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Global Employees: 20,000

U.S. Employees: 16,874

Last Year’s DiversityInc Top 50 Ranking: No. 42