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| 10:1 Monique Bateman |
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| Monique Bateman is senior vice president, human resources for TD Canada Trust. She started her journey through the bank 29 years ago as a customer service representative at a Winnipeg branch. She also is chair of the Aboriginal Employee Subcommittee where she encourages and mentors Aboriginal team members...
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| ETC global news briefs |
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Canada
The major US networks—NBC, CBS, ABC and Fox—were in Toronto last month as part of a recruitment campaign for more racial and ethnic diversity in primetime television. The 2-day casting call for minority talent is for network series to be produced in Canada. The networks will be traveling to Vancouver this month for the same purpose: to hire actors from Asian, African, Aboriginal, South Asian and Hispanic communities. The 4 networks will then share their lists of minority talent uncovered in Canada, including headshots and video introductions. The push for diversity came 3 years ago after the studios noticed primetime shows shot in BC had too few non-white faces...
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| MVP diversity champions |
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| Each year Profiles in Diversity Journal honors companies for their unwavering and creative commitment to diversity and inclusion. The winners of the 2010 International Innovation in Diversity Awards were UPMC, New York Life Insurance, KPMG, Wellpoint, Sodexo, ARAMARK, ConAgra Foods, Cisco Systems, Kaiser Permanente and Royal Dutch Shell. The Awards of Excellence went to American Airlines, Aon Consulting CACI International, Ecolab, Georgia Power, Gibbons P.C. Nationwide Financial and the University of the Rockies....[ read more ] |
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POV Socializing in the workplace
BY LEO J. DEVEAU |
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For a disabled employee, socializing in the workplace can often be very challenging; but at the same time, it can also be a challenge for the mainstream employee.
For the disabled employee, the question in one's mind is how much assistance they can ask for before it becomes either a nuisance or an annoyance. For the mainstream employee the question is how much assistance should they be offering before it too becomes either an annoyance or a nuisance. No shocker and no shaker.
Socializing in the workplace should not be thought of it as hanging out at someone else’s office or cubicle. It should be expanded to include...[ read more ] |
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Diversity Challenge
BY MAUREEN BROWN |
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| Your organization has instituted a mentoring program in an effort to boost the number of women in management. The organization sends out an open invitation to all management but you notice that women members of the management team are visibly absent from the mentor list. What factors w ould you consider in explaining this result? ... [ read more ] |
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