Post Tagged with: "employee-resource groups"

Holidays at Work: Culturally Competent or Offensive? What You SHOULD Know

Holidays at Work: Culturally Competent or Offensive? What You SHOULD Know

Is your company culturally competent during the holidays? Ensure employees’ festivities don’t lead to discrimination lawsuits.

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Networking & Sharing on Resource Groups, Diversity Councils, CEO Commitment, Talent Development, Mentoring

Networking & Sharing on Resource Groups, 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.

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Top 5 Ways to Maximize Talent

Leveraging these resources can help you keep your top-performing employees from jumping ship.

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Diversity Web Seminar on Diversity Metrics: Which Are Most Valuable to Diversity Management?

Diversity Web Seminar on Diversity Metrics: Which Are Most Valuable to Diversity Management?

Diversity management relies on accurate measurement of diversity metrics to track/ sustain results. Find out which are most valuable to diversity management—and how accountability factors in—in our diversity web seminar, featuring diversity experts from KPMG and Kraft Foods.

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How to Get More Women in Sales

How to Get More Women in Sales

Five strategies to get women to stay and flourish in high-pressure, high-mobility sales jobs.

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Retention: 5 Strategies to Maximize Employee Loyalty

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?

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How Kraft Increased Promotions of Women in Sales by 39%

How Kraft Increased Promotions of Women in Sales by 39%

Here’s how Dell, JCPenney, Kraft Foods and Toyota leverage resource groups to increase profits and enhance talent pipelines.

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Best Practices on Improving Retention

While the Big Four accounting firms fiercely compete against each other, they all have one common challenge: the retention of talent. Ernst & Young (No. 5 in The DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity), PricewaterhouseCoopers (No. 3), KPMG (No. 29) and Deloitte (No. 8) all work hard to recruit Blacks, Latinos, Asians, American Indians, LGBT people, people with disabilities [...]

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Safe LGBT Spaces: What Schools Can Learn From Resource Groups

Safe LGBT Spaces: What Schools Can Learn From Resource Groups

Diversity and inclusion can transform workplace experiences. GLSEN’s Dr. Eliza Byard shows how resource groups, like gay-straight alliances, can help.

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Increasing Diversity in Talent Development

Increasing Diversity in Talent Development

Maximizing your talent potential to create innovative business solutions is a global issue as everybody competes for the best people.

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‘I’m Puerto Rican—I’d Be Great at Selling Drugs’; ‘Not Married? She Must Be a Lesbian’

‘I’m Puerto Rican—I’d Be Great at Selling Drugs’; ‘Not Married? She Must Be a Lesbian’

ABC’s new comedy “Work It” has offended Latinos, LGBT people, TV critics and viewers. How can a company use its employee-resource groups, diversity councils and clarity of values to prevent multicultural missteps?

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Yeah, But Is Your Heart in Your Diversity Work?

Yeah, But Is Your Heart in Your Diversity Work?

In a follow-up to my column “Can a White Man Speak With Authority on Diversity?”, a reader asks a critical question.

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7 Ways to Increase Employee-Resource-Group Participation

7 Ways to Increase Employee-Resource-Group Participation

What’s the most important step to maximize your diversity management? Hint: You can’t do it if you have low employee-resource-group participation.

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Are Employee-Resource Groups Relevant to Younger People?

Are Employee-Resource Groups Relevant to Younger People?

A reader wants to know if younger employees, who are increasingly multicultural, will still find employee-resource groups useful. The White Guy explains why they are inclusive and very valuable to both companies and workers.

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What Are the Benefits of Employee-Resource Groups?

What Are the Benefits of Employee-Resource Groups?

Question: What’s your opinion on employee networks/affinity groups?

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