Feature Articles
Diversity Implementation Falls Short of Intent, Survey Suggests
Workers might believe that having a diverse workforce is a priority for their employer, but that doesn’t mean they think their employer is doing a good job of achieving that goal. Instead, the vast majority of workers feel that having a diverse workforce is something most companies publicize more than they actually implement.
Surveys: Leaders Accountable for Diversity
Effective business initiatives generally need three things: a strategy, leadership and accountability. But diversity initiatives might lack one or more of the elements necessary for success, recent polls suggest.
Diversity Leadership in Academia
Chief diversity officers (CDOs) in institutions of higher learning have roles similar to those in corporate America, experts say. But the ultimate aims of the position—and the qualifications needed to do the job—are very different.
Diversity Champions: Drivers of Change
A diversity champion should be “a senior-level money-making person,” according to Laura Hertzog, acting director of EEO/Diversity and Inclusion Programs at Cornell University. Whether their role is assigned formally or adopted informally, diversity champions play a key role in advancing an organization’s diversity initiative, experts say.
Religion Can Spawn Workplace Clashes
Though many Americans are highly religious, most are accepting of other religious perspectives, suggests a new report. However, religious clashes continue to occur in the workplace, another report finds.
Web Site Design, Content Can Bring in Youth, Blacks
The design and content of an employer’s web site influences prospective young job candidates—especially young black job seekers, a new academic study has found.
Women and Minorities Missing from Many Leadership Tables
The C-Suite continues to be mostly white and male, according to a recent survey from IMD International Search and Consulting.
Experts: Mastering Diversity Competencies Takes a Lifetime
"Creating a Competency Model for Diversity and Inclusion Practitioners," released May 27, 2008, by The Conference Board, is described as “daunting” by one diversity expert. The model includes seven competencies, 27 sub-categories or “like competencies,” and 83 “behaviorally-based definitions.”
Depression Affects Women More than Men
One in eight women experiences depression in their lifetime; twice the rate as men, regardless of race or ethnic background, according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). The organization reports that depression also affects women of color more than whites.
Nonparents Want Work/Life Balance Too
Working parents and nonparents agree on the importance of work/life balance. But when asked if they have the same level of access to work/life benefits as their colleagues, only 44 percent of nonparents said they did, compared to 60 percent of mothers and 70 percent of fathers.
Workplace Internet Bans Worry Generation Y
A sizeable percentage of Generation Y—those 18- to 24-year-olds also known as the Digital Generation—would quit their job if an all-out ban on personal use of workplace technology were imposed, according to a recent survey of 1,000 office workers in the United Kingdom.
Gender Impacts Quest for Top Job, Studies Suggest
Women in the United States have demonstrated their ability—and willingness—to take on top leadership roles in business and government. But studies suggest that fundamental differences remain between the sexes, such as the impact of stereotypes and age on career aspirations.
Survey: Generational Conflicts Have Impact
Knowledge is not being transferred because today’s multigenerational workforce rarely interact with each other and often do not recognize each other’s skills or work ethics.
Report: Some Treat Language Training as Part of Inclusion
Some organizations consider language training an integral part of their diversity and inclusion strategy. But most employers have not embraced this philosophy, according to a new report, because they “have not found a need to warrant such training.”
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