Ask DiversityInc: Should You Use Multi-Tier Resource Groups?

Ask DiversityInc: Should You Use Multi-Tier Resource Groups?

What kinds of resource groups are catching the attention of corporate America? Do they make sense from a business perspective?

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How Do You Include Hourly Workers in Resource Groups?

How Do You Include Hourly Workers in Resource Groups?

Your resource-group questions answered: From including hourly workers to finding leaders and counting membership, our cutting-edge research reveals the best practices and solutions you need.

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Diversity Web Seminar on Talent Development: How Diversity Metrics Help Improve Diversity at the Top

Do diversity metrics show that the top of your organization is all white and all male? Here are proven best practices for improving diversity metrics so you can have a more diverse executive pipeline.

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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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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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‘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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Ask DiversityInc: How Do We Get Hourly Workers in Resource Groups?

Ask DiversityInc: How Do We Get Hourly Workers in Resource Groups?

Q. We are trying to find ways to include our hourly and union workers in as much of the D&I work as possible. As you know, working with unions can be particularly difficult, and I want to have as much guidance as I can get. If there is anything written on this, that would be helpful.

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Video of 2011 DiversityInc Special Awards: American Express

Anré Williams, president, Global Merchant Services, American Express, accepts the award for Top Company for Employee-Resource Groups.

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Our 8 Top Companies for Diversity Excellence

From left: John Viehmeyer, Susan Story, John Strangfeld, Carolynn Johnson, Michael Ward, Luke Visconti, Edward Hurley-Wales, Barbara Frankel, Chuck Columbus, Rod Adkins

DiversityInc gave out special achievement awards to eight companies that are best at ERGs, global diversity, executive development, talent pipeline, community philanthropy, work/life and diversity-management progress.

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Innovative Ways to Use Resource Groups

Innovative Ways to Use Resource Groups

Diversity leaders reveal that using ERGs in innovative ways can positively affect business results.

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How Does DiversityInc Determine the Top 50?

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.

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Do You Need a Generational Resource Group?

Do You Need a Generational Resource Group?

Generational employee-resource groups are increasingly popular. We explain what value they add and which employees to target.

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Why You’re Not Developing New Customers

Why You’re Not Developing New Customers

Finally tap into those potentially lucrative markets and increase business.

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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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