Workplace Diversity

Celebrating Being in a Diversity League of Our Own

George Halvorson | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Diversity in Workplace, Kaiser-Permanente, Diversity at Kaiser Permanente, Kaiser Permanente, Diversity in Business, Kaiser-Permanente-Medical-Foundation, Workplace Diversity, Business News
George Halvorson

At Kaiser Permanente, we have a wonderful level of diversity among our caregivers and staff, and among our patients and members. Our diversity gives us the sensitivity and the connectivity that we need to serve our members respectfully and well.

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Wealth, Prosperity and Longevity (Part II)

Blythe McGarvie | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Global Business Leadership, Blythe McGarvie, Shaking the Globe, Cultural Relations, Workplace Diversity, Business News
Blythe McGarvie

This acceptance of hierarchy leads to higher status differences, formal social relations and greater power concentrations among fewer people. It also means people who reside in lower rungs of the social order may have fewer perceived choices and rarely question authority.

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Why There May Be A Lack Of Minorities In Top-Level Economic Jobs

Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Latino Voices News, U.S. Economy, Video, Education, Economy, Federal Reserve, Latino Prosperity, Diversity, Workplace Diversity, Latino Voices News

According to a report released last week by the Federal Reserve’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion, the central bank is having a hard time making t...

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Getting Past Stuck With Diversity & Inclusion

Trudy Bourgeois | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Women, Diversity and Inclusion, Corporate America, People of Color, Diversity, Diversity in the Workplace, Workplace Diversity, Business News
Trudy Bourgeois

I fear that leaders of the business world today are like Moses and the Israelites. Wandering the wilderness for 40 years, going around and around the ...

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10 Countries With The Most Workplace Diversity

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 03.16.2012

Read More: Work Hours, Gdp, Governance, Ethnicity, Age, Country of Birth, Poverty Rates, Disability, Harvard Business School, Forbes, Iceland, Diversity, Gender, Workplace Diversity, Business News

High school history books might call the United States the world's melting pot, but that characterization doesn't quite hold true in today's workplace...

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Master Steps for the Dance of Diversity

Arva Rice | Posted 05.05.2012

Read More: Corporate Diversity, Inclusion, Diversity, Workplace Diversity, Money, Bv-Money, Black Voices News
Arva Rice

Diversity is inviting everyone to the party. Inclusion is getting everyone to dance. I heard this adage from a retail executive discussing the difference between thinking diversity is important and integrating diversity into the very fabric of a corporation.

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How To Keep Your Job When You're Over 50

www.thestreet.com | Posted 01.17.2012

Read More: Career Advice, Ageism, Jobs, Job Security, Aging, Workplace, Career Tips, Workplace Diversity, Fifty News

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Need to work longer before retiring? Older worker, beware! A bull's-eye is being stenciled on your back. This can put a crimp ...

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Has Diversity Lived Up to Its Promise?

Laura Liswood | Posted 01.29.2012

Read More: Leadership, Organizational Culture, Inclusion, Diversity, Cultural Differences, Company Diversity, Diversity Office, Diversity Company, Workplace Diversity, Business News
Laura Liswood

My belief is that we need to move now to Diversity 2.0 and give managers and leaders the training, awareness, skill sets, tools that ensure we engage and capture the full benefit of the diversity we say we are so committed to.

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Don't Ask, Don't Tell (At Work, Anyway)

Jon Hoadley | Posted 12.11.2011

Read More: Gay Rights, Workplace Discrimination, Workplace Diversity, Lgbt Employment Equality, Lgbt Workplace Equality, Workplace Equality, Michigan Workplace Equality, Michigan Workplace Discrimination, Employment Equality, Michigan Employment Equality, Gay Voices News
Jon Hoadley

Today is National Coming Out Day. But if you work in Michigan, you may want to think twice about coming out at your workplace. That's because Michigan is among 29 states in the union where you can still be fired on the spot just for being gay.

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The Problem with Diversity Training

Dion Nicole | Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: Postbourgie, Diversity Training, Diversity, Workplace Diversity, Office-Culture, Culture, Workplace Discrimination, Office Culture, Office-Diversity, Racial Stereotypes, Black Voices News
Dion Nicole

Recently, in my office, we had to undergo mandatory diversity training. I expected it to be bad. wasn't expecting be infuriated.

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Initiating Tough Work-Life Conversations?

Kathie Lingle | Posted 11.23.2011

Read More: Women in Business, Work-Life Balance, Workplace Flexibility, Business, Workplace, Work, Flexible Work Schedules, Workplace Diversity, National Work and Family Month, Business News
Kathie Lingle

Taking control of your own life at work takes courage -- the courage to stand up and push back in defense of your own values in the face of intense pressure to behave otherwise.

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Sustainable Management: Focus on Individuals, Not Generations

Ed Lawler | Posted 09.12.2011

Read More: Baby Boomers, Sustainability, Globalization, Generation X, Careers, Management, Generation Y, Workplace Diversity, Business News
Ed Lawler

For the last decade, the media has been obsessed with the differences said to exist among generations. An entire industry emerged dedicated to describ...

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What Everyone Is Missing About NPR's WilliamsGate

Farai Chideya | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Npr, Juan Williams, Diversity, Juan Williams Fired, Juan Williams Interview, Bill O'Reilly, Defunding Npr, Workplace Diversity, Tea Party, Media News
Farai Chideya

Do I think NPR fired Juan Williams because he is black? No. Do I think NPR kept him on for years, as the relationship degraded, because he is a black man? Absolutely.

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Diversity Programs Don't Stop Mad Men Sexism

Marcia Reynolds | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Gender Discrimination, Corporate America, Cultural Revolution, Workplace Diversity, Women's Empowerment, Diversity in the Workplace, Gender Inequality, Women in Business, Inequality, Healthy Living News
Marcia Reynolds

For the health of our companies, the economy and our daughter's futures we need to do something about the inequalities women face in corporate America.

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On the Strategic Use of the F-word: Is Swearing a Currency in High Tech?

Caroline Simard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Organizational Culture, High Tech Companies, Assertiveness, Women Executives, Executives, Swearing, Workplace Diversity, Communication, Technology News
Caroline Simard

As our research report in collaboration with Stanford University found, corporate America overwhelmingly values being outspoken and assertive, and swearing is nothing more than a reflection of these values.

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When the "C" in C-Suite Stands for Clueless

Dr. Sasha Galbraith | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Male Managers, Women, Surveys, Gender Parity, Women Executives, Business, Diversity, Workplace Diversity, Gender, Business News
Dr. Sasha Galbraith

In the rarified air of the senior executive ranks, men are under the impression that everything is hunky dory for women in corporate America and that ...

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It is Not Our Parents Workplace Anymore

Pat Earley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women in the Workplace, Education, Labor, Working Families Party, Workplace, Work, Living, Work-Life Balance, Skilled US Workers, Families, Business, Workplace Diversity, Business News
Pat Earley

Employers must seriously consider the deficiencies in today's workforce and begin to develop solutions to better improve our educational system, create new incentives to attract tomorrow's workers, and stay competitive in a global marketplace.

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The Loudest Duck

Laura Liswood | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Globalization, Leadership, Multinational Corporations, Career, Business, Diversity, Management, Workplace Diversity, Business News
Laura Liswood

Diverse companies can be much better and more creative, much more profitable and able to succeed globally, only if they are aware and conscious of all we bring in preconceived notions of who others are.

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Diversity: Why Do We Have Such A Hard Time Walking Our Talk?

BJ Gallagher | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Racism, Obama, Hate Crimes, Melting Pot, Pluralism, Diversity, Sexism, Workplace Diversity, The Balanced Life, Healthy Living News
BJ Gallagher

I sometimes wonder whether the diversity movement isn't just the latest manifestation of our national schizophrenia - the schism between what we believe as idealists and what we do as realists.

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Diversity is the Key to Profitability

Chloe Drew | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Layoffs, Job Losses, Business Management, Economic Crisis, Women in Business, Post-Racial, Diversity, Workplace Diversity, Business News
Chloe Drew

Is it fair or even appropriate to demand that business leaders focus on diversity rather than solely profitability? Yes -- in fact, you cannot divorce the two.

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What's In a Name? Racial Discrimination Still a Prominent Feature of the Canadian and U.S. Labor Markets

Nikki Cicerani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Employer Discrimination, Workplace Discrimination, Economic Recession, Immigrants, Skilled US Workers, Immigrant's Story, Workplace Diversity, Business News
Nikki Cicerani

It is time to shift some of our risk taking and innovation to the human capital markets and see if we can create a richer society based on a new foundation of inclusion.

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De-Genderfying Leadership

Andrea Learned | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Leadership, Women's Leadership, Workplace Diversity, Women's Rights, Women's Issues, Feminist, Feminism, Healthy Living News
Andrea Learned

Rather than spend energy touting or striving toward a woman's nation, let's focus on bringing genders together.

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More Diversity in Workplace? Black Man in White House No Silver Bullet, But a Start

Esther J. Cepeda | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Valarie King-Bailey, Chicago United, Workplace Diversity, Obama Workplace Diversity, Election 2008, Obama Diversity, Barack Obama, Corporate Culture, Chicago News
Esther J. Cepeda

Minority families are beaming that Barack Obama's history-changing race to the White House will change their children's lives and careers. Yes! And, sadly, no.

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