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Diversity: a difference between people, for example, in race, age, gender, disability, geographic origin, family status, education, or personality, that can affect workplace relationships and achievement....; Diversity definition on BNET »

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Diversity Pays Off For Everyone: Any company that wants to stay competitive must come to terms with diversity - inside and outside the organization. The legal and moral arguments for diversity are unassailable. Discriminatory hiring practices not only demean the human spirit, they've been against the law for decades. No one thought much about making...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Microsoft Corp., business case, recruiting, workforce, hiring; White papers
Cultural Diversity in the Workplace: Strength in Diversity!: Cultural diversity in the workplace provides strengths as well as challenges to businesses today. The United States is often thought of as the great melting pot where anyone from any background can assimilate into a single society. A more realistic and appropriate "Ideal" is one of multi-culturalism cultural diversity. Multi-culturalism...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, workplace; White papers
The Case For Global Diversity: Four Tips On What Works: Chief executive officers and top managers have been giving lip service to the concept of ethnic and sexual diversity for many years--with only scant results. Many boards have a token African-American and a token woman, but their presence has no impact on the organization. The number of women on boards...; Tags: Corporate governance, William J. Holstein, board; Blog posts 2008-01-25
P&G to Launch Ad Campaign Aimed at Black Women: Unilever generated massive buzz with its Dove "Campaign for Real Beauty." You couldn't go anywhere for a couple of years without seeing those curvaceous, "real" women looking pleased to be in their underwear. Though you also couldn't avoid hearing critics complain that Unilever sells many other products in traditional ways...; Tags: Gender and diversity, opinion piece, Jessica Stillman, women, Procter & Gamble Co., advertisement, Unilever PLC; Blog posts 2007-08-27
Manage a Diverse Team: Diversity is a reality in today's workforce. What are the benefits and challenges inherent in having a team drawn from backgrounds as divergent as Tuscaloosa and Tibet? An interesting Boston Globe article by Michael Jonas yesterday entitled "The Downside of Diversity," looks at the difficulties surrounding this most central fact...; Tags: Team management, Jessica Stillman, Putnam, team; Blog posts 2007-08-06

Racial Diversity Initiatives In Professional Service Firms: Diversity continues to be a key focus for organizations, driven by globalization and the understanding of the benefits associated with a diverse workforce. While it is critical for managers and researchers to understand the processes and outcomes associated with diversity, much work remains to be done in this important area...; Tags: Workforce management, Recruitment & Selection, payroll solutions, workforce, globalization, benefit; White papers 2006-09-21
Diversity Of Knowledge-Sourcing Strategies For Cross-Disciplinarity In Bionanotechnology: In this paper, we have carried five case studies looking into the extent and types of cross-disciplinary practices in a specialty of bionanotechnology. We have found that there is a consistent high degree of cross-disciplinarily in the cognitive aspects of research (i.e. references and instrumentalities), but a more erratic and...; Tags: strategy, collaboration; White papers 2006-04-01
Towards a Multicultural World: Identifying Work Systems, Practices and Employee Attitudes That Embrace Diversity: The research program described in this paper focuses on identifying the role of organizational culture, as reflected in workplace systems and practices, and employee and group attitudes in the outcomes of interactions among dissimilar parties. A systematic, theory-testing approach underlies the program, which aims to both develop and validate the...; Tags: organizational culture, workplace, theory; White papers 2004-12-01
Leading a Diverse Team: Diversity is an issue that is in the forefront of almost every organization with which one works. It is frequently listed as one of a corporation's core values and there is often a lot of effort around it. Although the right words about diversity are professed in these companies, most...; Tags: Team management, team, leader; White papers 2004-09-01
Diversity Leaders - Advancing Business Performance Through Diversity: There is no question that for any organization to succeed today, it must keep pace with the nation's changing demographics. Many forward-thinking companies answer this call by providing the right products and services demanded by their consumers. However, determining these needs begins by understanding the cultural nuances of the consumer...; Tags: Leadership, Gale Group, leader, workforce, performance; White papers 2004-07-01
Disentangling the Meanings of Diversity and Inclusion: The study presented in this paper comparatively investigates the meanings of diversity and inclusion in organizations. First, the paper reviews definitions of diversity and inclusion and related research that explore the dimensionality of these constructs. The paper then describes three studies to develop and evaluate a scale for measuring attributes...; Tags: Cornell University; White papers 2004-06-01
Reconciling Diversity With Equality: The Role of Intergovernmental Fiscal Arrangements in Maintaining an Effective State in Canada: Many countries contain within their boundaries diverse regions. Regional diversity may influence the nature and effectiveness of public sector activities through many economic and political channels. The most important and prominent manifestation of diversity in Canada has of course been the rise to dominance in the largely francophone province of...; Tags: University of Toronto, Canada, public sector; White papers 2004-04-01
Recent Research on Team and Organizational Diversity: SWOT Analysis and Implications: Sixty-three studies published in the years 1997 - 2002 are reviewed to assess the effects of workplace diversity on teams and organizations. Four major questions are considered: Which personal attributes have diversity researchers studied in recent years? What has been learned about the consequences of diversity for teams and organizations?...; Tags: Team management, Reed Elsevier Inc., SWOT analysis, team, workplace; White papers 2003-11-29
Investigating Employee Misconduct in a Diverse Workplace: Investigating complaints of employee misconduct is an important and difficult task for the human resource professionals, in-house counsel, and others responsible for investigations. Those tasked with conducting these investigators invariably know the fundamental tenet of U.S. employment law: when making decisions in the workplace, don't take into account a person's...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Reed Elsevier Inc., workplace, Human Resources; White papers 2003-10-01
Diversity Recruiting Metrics: Most individuals support diversity recruiting efforts. These efforts are accepted in most corporate Human Resource HR departments. Diversity is an important goal, which is viewed by most individuals as a tool for increasing innovation, resulting in profitability and good image of the company. It is important for senior HR managers...; Tags: Electronic Recruiting Exchange Inc., Human Resources, monitoring, tool; White papers 2003-03-24
Employee Referrals and Diversity: Legal Issue or Opportunity?: Employee referral programs, like any other business program, can be designed to achieve a multitude of results, including improving diversity. The first step is to communicate to employees that building a diverse workforce are a major corporate goal. Then educate the employees as to what...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Workforce management, Electronic Recruiting Exchange Inc., workforce; White papers 2003-02-11
Diversity Can Improve Decision-Making: People tend to think of diversity as simply demographic, a matter of color, gender, or age. However, groups can be disparate in many ways. Diversity is also based on informational differences, reflecting a person's education and experience, as well as on values or goals that can influence what one perceives...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, decision-making; White papers 2003-01-01
Diversity, Teams, and Training: One of the great challenges facing organizations is getting all employees, from the CEO to the hourly workers, to realize that to become the best, they have to embrace diversity. Diversity is about empowering people. It makes an organization effective by capitalizing on all the strengths of each employee. If...; Tags: Team management, Workforce management, training and certification, training, team, worker; White papers 2003-01-01
Diversity And Leadership: Diverse is defined as “Differing one from another, made up of distinct characteristics, qualities, or elements.” While this definition stresses difference and distinctness, current conversations about diversity in corporations stress the reduction of differences, and the acknowledgment of differences often seems held to be wrong, discriminatory, or somehow undemocratic. This...; Tags: leadership; White papers 2003-01-01
Key Issues In Workplace Diversity: Representation And Compensation: The article zooms in on the point that the employers should not assume that employees will raise complaints with human resources personnel or other company officials before they consult lawyers, file EEOC charges with government agencies, or even join in “recruited” class action lawsuits. In today’s environment, the only permissible...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, workplace, class action, workforce, compensation, Human Resources, environment; White papers 2002-12-01