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- 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 management aims to value...
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- Boardroom Diversity is Still Only Skin Deep
- Companies are very good at diversity, if you believe their annual reports. On the cover there are likely to be photographs of a melting pot of races, religions, minorities and at least two genders. This diversity will then give way to reality inside the report which will...
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
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- Sixth International Congress on Sex and Gender Diversity: the Sixth International Congress on Sex and Gender Diversity will take place in the U.K. from 10-12 September 2004.(Conferences & Announcements)
- The Congress is an interdisciplinary conference on transgender, intersexuality, transsexuals and related aspects of sex and gender. The gathering is intended to be a meeting place for academics, clinical practitioners and the sex and gender-diverse communities. It is sponsored by Press For Change PFC, a political...
- Research articles 2004-04-01
- Gender Diversity Is Good for the Bottom Line
- In February, the research firm Catalyst reported that after years of gains the number of women serving on boards of directors had actually declined. While that's certainly bad for diversity and raises a good number of questions as to why the trend has reversed, Catalyst has also found it is...
- Blog posts 2007-10-02
- Race, gender diversity losing ground in sports
- Women and minorities are losing ground with jobs in professional and college sports, reversing a trend toward greater diversity, according to a study released Monday. Every professional sport had lower averages for employing women compared with the last Racial and Gender Report Card two years ago, and minority...
- Research articles 2003-04-29
- 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...
- Blog posts 2008-01-25
- NBA best at achieving diversity
- The National Basketball Association received an A in racial diversity from a recent university study, the top grade among America's professional sports leagues. The NBA earned an overall grade of B-plus, the best in sports, according to a study by Richard Lapchick of the University of Central Florida's Institute...
- Research articles 2005-05-23
- Is diversity working? How diverse is the engineering work force? Is the welcome mat out to stay?
- Ever since the first modern civil rights legislation in 1964, corporate America has endeavored to increase the ethnic, racial, and gender diversity of the US work force. Through court decisions, boom and bust business cycles, and government policy shifts, large and small companies have grappled...
- Research articles 1992-03-05
- Diversity Development Project; "40 Ways To Raise A Non-Racist Child" Panel Discussion
- SAN JOSE, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Oct. 21, 1998--Parent and Student Seminars (P.A.S.S.), an educational consultant group, has announced a first-of-its-kind Diversity Development Project. The Project has targeted nine specific areas for diversity development: education, human services, media, race/culture, corporations, government, families, physically challenged and gender. Initially, the Project will focus on...
- Research articles 1998-10-22
- Managing Workforce 2000: Gaining the Diversity Advantage. - book reviews
- Beyond Race and Gender. By R. Roosevelt Thomas, Jr. New York, American Management Association, 1991. 189 pp. $22.95, cloth. Managing Workforce 2000: Gaining the Diversity Advantage. By David Jamieson and Julie O'Mara. San Francisco, CA, Jossey Bass Publishers, 1991. 241 pp. $27.95. The Hudson Institute's 1988 report, Workforce...
- Research articles 1992-06-01
- TOP 100 DIVERSITY EMPLOYERS OF 2005, THE
- Understanding DiversityBy Catrine JonangsonDiversity is a vital business imperative for employers today. To provide clients and customers with the test advice or products available, employers need to nave a workforce as multi-faceted as the global economy they operate in."Diversity encompasses so much more than ethnicity and gender, particularly when students...
- Research articles 2005-10-01
- Federal Judge Rules That Georgia has No Compelling Interest in Promoting Diversity - Brief Article
- SAVANNAH, GA. A federal district judge ruled late last month that three White female applicants denied admission to the University of Georgia in 1999 should be offered admission to the institution this fall, effectively ending the university's policy of giving special consideration to minority applicants. In his ruling,...
- Research articles 2000-08-17
- EEO and Managerialism in New Zealand Local Government: Empirical Results of a Collision Course?
- In the study presented in this paper perceptions of EEO held by employees of a medium-sized local authority were measured from 1994-1998. A significant increase in support for EEO occurred in the first two years of the study. The results may be interpreted through the lens of a collision between...
- White papers 2002-04-29
- Gartner Says Mobile Technology Vendors Must Better Address Gender Diversity and Demographics in their Products
- Analysts Explore Which Social Trends Will Influence Mobile and Wireless Technology Adoption and Innovation During Gartner Emerging Trends Symposium/ITxpo 2008, April 6 to 10, in Las Vegas
- Research articles 2008-04-08
- Union Bank of Cal's Edge Sharpens Its Diversity Success
- The ranks of black, Hispanic and Asian small-business owners are growing far faster than the number of white entrepreneurs, and one California bank has tapped that growth using a little-known Equal Credit Opportunity law exemption that allows the bank to ask applicants' ethnicity and gender. For 14 years, $52.6...
- Research articles 2007-06-01
- Managing by Agreement - The New "MBA"
- Productivity and satisfaction depend on "clear" hearts and "clear" agreements. When the heart or the agreement is unclear, conflict and compromised productivity follow. Self-Management of emotion generated by stress is a precursor to effective negotiation and collaborative dialogue about the real or potential conflict. This is a skill one needs...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Study: gender, race gap still exists in sports front offices, sidelines: WNBA receives top marks for opportunities for women and minorities
- ORLANDO, FLA. The WNBA was the only major professional sports league to receive top marks in a comprehensive study comparing opportunities for women and minorities in sports. The University of Central Florida's Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport examined front office, support staff, playing and coaching opportunities...
- Research articles 2005-11-17
- "Pulled apart, pushed together" diversity and unity within the Congress of South African Trade Unions/Diversite et unite au sein du Congres des syndicats sud-africains
- This is a study of horizontal and vertical solidarity within a national labour movement, based on a nationwide survey of members of affiliated unions of the Congress of South African Trade Unions. On the one hand, the survey reveals relatively high levels of vertical and horizontal solidarity, despite the persistence...
- Research articles 2004-09-22
- Case Study: Gender and Diversity
- The Criminology and Women and the Law courses are taught in a way, which recognizes values diversity.An explicit objective of the courses is to think critically about the law. A great deal of time in both courses is spent analyzing legal claims of objectivity. The Women and the Law class...
- Case studies 2003-03-05
- Multicultural nightmare is antithetical to tolerance - an Asian-Indian, woman Yale University student rejects requirement to emphasize her ethnic differences - Column
- Welcome to the multicultural college campus. Here you will be defined by your race, gender, ethnicity and sexual orientation even before you enroll in classes. The labels come quickly and stick hard. Arriving at Yale three years ago, I thought diversity on campus would mean that racial and gender...
- Research articles 1994-08-22
- Women and Vision: It's the Leadership Model That's Lacking
- Jess Stillman's post on female executives' perceived lack of vision has brought in a bagload of responses and some possible explanations as to why research might've arrived at that conclusion. Another research report, another possible answer: gender consultancy Catalyst's latest research suggests that...
- Blog posts 2009-02-26
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