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Understand the Importance of Diversity
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Smart small businesses today understand diversity is more than just a feel-good notion on a human resources poster. It is, in fact, crucial to doing business in a world whose populations, by virtue of speedy air travel and even speedier Internet service, become more interconnected by the day.
In the U.S. alone, the wide range of people involved in both the making and the consuming of products could include the Indian automotive engineer who is helping to take Ford to the next level; the African American statistician at a Silicon Valley startup; the 65-year-old disabled man who, instead of retiring, has just been promoted; the Gen Y child of immigrants from Central America who excels in Web marketing at Procter & Gamble; the gay woman who is the mother of two; and so on.
As consumers, they are all buying what your business sells—or ignoring it—depending on whether your company is as diverse as they are...
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| FYI Talent Oyster |
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| AW, SHUCKS Until TalentOyster came along there were no other job boards doing a good job of attracting a diverse workforce. “The progressive employers, the diverse Canadians and the not-for-profits, they were largely disconnected,” says Sutton. Thanks to his organization, newcomers now have an opportunity to restart their careers in positions similar to those they left behind and not just settle for jobs as cab drivers or custodians. “At the end of the day we’re trying to help make it better for newcomers,” Sutton adds. “And our jobseekers are really happy that there’s something out there now that can help them find more than just survival jobs.”....
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| ETC global news briefs |
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Sinagpore
The National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School's Centre for Governance, Institutions and Organizations (CGIO) plans to track gender diversity in Singapore's boardrooms and publish the results for the public. The Singapore Board Diversity Index will provide comprehensive publicly available data measuring female participation on the country’s boards on an annual basis from a database managed by the CGIO. At present, 61.7% of Singapore firms do not have a single woman represented in their boardroom while 31% have just one female. Only 10 companies or 1.2% of all listed companies in Singapore had 3 or more women represented on their boards....
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| MVP diversity champions |
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| The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) is the first organization in the UK to receive the Advanced Level of the Equality Standard for Sport. The award demonstrates LOCOG's commitment to embedding equality throughout the organization and ensuring that the London 2012 Games are truly inclusive..[ read more ] |
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Top 10 Ways to Motivate Women in your Workforce
BY ROY SAUNDERSON |
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With the study* just published by the Obama White House stating that females earn about 75 percent of what male counterparts make, the need to recognize women in the workforce has never been more critical.
But should women be recognized differently from men? While women are individuals foremost we cannot stereotypically typecast what motivates women versus men. But we can learn a lot from what women share with us. Thomasina Tafur**, a woman’s mentor training consultant and a former FedEx senior manager who climbed the corporate ladder for 20 years and now delivers her successful business acumen to the next generation of women leaders, shared some of the following ways to hit the mark in recognizing women employees in the workplace. ... [ read more ] |
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