Workplace Diversity

It is Not Our Parents Workplace Anymore

Pat Earley | Posted 11.21.2009 | Business


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.

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

BJ Gallagher | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living


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.

Diversity is the Key to Profitability

Chloe Drew | Posted 08.30.2009 | Business


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.

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

Nikki Cicerani | Posted 08.22.2009 | Business


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.

De-Genderfying Leadership

Andrea Learned | Posted 05.29.2009 | Living


Andrea Learned

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

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

Esther J. Cepeda | Posted 12.12.2008 | Chicago


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.