Workplace diversity continues to elude many white male managers, according to a new survey by the Greatheart Leader Labs in Seattle. But the reason wh...
Let's ring in 2013 with some clarity about what it means for a company to be age-friendly and how best to get there.
Forty-eight percent of LGBT workers do not feel free to be out at work. This robs organizations of getting the best contributions from their LGBT talent, because closeted employees must divert a substantial amount of their creative and emotional energy toward obscuring a fundamental aspect of their identity.
Through my LGBT-rights activism I frequently come across people who ask me, in good faith, what use there is in coming out of the closet, especially to work colleagues. They are baffled by the idea of connecting the individual sphere of their sexuality with their professional life.
Employment for people with disabilities is lower today than it was before the passage of the ADA. Despite the statistics, I am hopeful that we are finally ready to get serious about the power of people with disabilities to enrich the workplace.
After deciding whether and whom to marry, the choice of a job or career is the next major life decision most likely to be influenced by faith, according to a new study.
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.
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.
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...
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 ...
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...
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.
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 ...
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.
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.
Recently, in my office, we had to undergo mandatory diversity training. I expected it to be bad. wasn't expecting be infuriated.
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.
For the last decade, the media has been obsessed with the differences said to exist among generations. An entire industry emerged dedicated to describ...
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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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.
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.
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.
