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The The Metrics and Business Case for Diversity Reading Room provides readers with articles that explain how diversity recruiting initiatives can go beyond serving as a way to comply to affirmative actions law, avoid litigation or address litigation concerns. They will show recruiters how diversity recruiting can be a key to maintaining a competitive edge. Results driven diversity staffing initiatives can be the catalyst for a better return on your investment in human capital and and maximize your competitive advantage.
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The Business Case for Diversity
by Dr. Edward E. Hubbard
In the past, many managers answered this question out of a sense of the "right thing
Review of The Diversity Recruitment Advertising Toolkit Directory
by Advanced Online Recruiting Techniques BlogI love it when a publication actually lives up to its title. If you are looking for diversity outlets, this is a great reference tool to get you started. Also useful are the various checklists for diversity advertisers, things to avoid that can get you into legal hot water, and the various ways that editor Tracey de Morsella cross-indexes the listings are convenient. I didn't have too much to recommend to her to improve the next edition.
to do" or because they were seeing more and more people who didn't look like them in the workforce, or merely felt they had to meet the organization's requirement for working with diverse groups. However, today's managers know that without effective diversity management capability, organizational effectiveness is in jeopardy. Being effective at managing a diverse workforce helps to lift morale, improve processes, bring access to new segments of the marketplace and enhance productivity of the organization. In essence, it is good for business.
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Diversity Efforts Can Support Business Imperatives
by Linda Gravett, Ph.D.
It’s no secret that in today’s global marketplace competition is keen, and the skills, knowledge and abilities required to keep up with, let alone lead the competition, are becoming increasingly sophisticated. Supplier relationships are often spread across the globe and can become very complex, given language and cultural barriers. The demographics of the existing or potential customer base of many organizations is a moving target. In the meantime, shareholders in private sector companies and stakeholders in public sector organizations have high expectations for profit or results as a return on their investment in time, money, or both. Additionally, the U.S. has become a litigious society with a marked increase in the past few years ...
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The Forgotten Affinity Group... Stockholders
by Vincent Cramer
It comes as a surprise to some people when they learn that the CEO has a boss, just as the rest of us do. In the case of the CEO, he or she has a multitude of them. They are the shareholders in the company, which means that they are the owners. Diversity Councils must be aware of and responsive to the needs and objectives of the stockholders. Since they are the owners, they will evaluate the economic performance of the company. Diversity can make significant contributions to the corporate performance, but it is important to look at performance through the eyes of the stockholders.
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Diversity and Inclusion: A Global Approach for Maximum Business Results
by Anita Zanchettin
The bottom-line business benefits of diversity and inclusion are increasingly well-established in global companies, including: Attraction and retention of top talent through employer-of-choice reputation around the world; Improved morale among employees worldwide; Cost savings due to better leveraging of strengths and skills within the organization; Stronger relationships with global partners and customers; Increased productivity of diverse and globally dispersed teams. As diversity and inclusion become more strategic components of achieving business results, the need to deal with these issues in a globally appropriate way increases.
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Why Diversity Counts: The Business Case
by Sondra Thiederman, Ph.D.
There was a time when corporations in the US could get away with ignoring diversity issues and hire employees who all looked and thought alike, catering ...
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Diversity Recruiting -- The Compelling Business Case
by Dr. John Sullivan
There are many compelling legal and social arguments for engaging in diversity recruiting, however recruiting expert, John Sullivan delves into the many ...
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Measurement as a Critical Component of your Organization’s Diversity Process
by Linda H. Stokes and Mickey R. Dansby, Ph.D.
Leveraging diversity can be key to closing the diversity gap. Unfortunately, many organizations think about diversity as a human resource function, rather ...
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How to Calculate Diversity Return on Investment (DROI): An Overview
by Dr. Edward E. Hubbard
Diversity performance is challenging to measure for the following reasons: It is not always obvious what results should be measured. Many diversity ...
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The Developing Diversity Accountability Paradigm
by Christopher Metzler, Esq.
Most organizations have diversity efforts in place but simply cannot figure out how to make them effective. One of the main reasons they are not ...
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All too often companies succeed in adopting a business case for diversity, but fail to design accountability into their diversity and inclusion ...
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Diversity: A Capitalist's Dream
by Vincent M. Cramer
For maximum effectiveness, Diversity Program leaders need to recognize and understand where they are in their evolutionary process. Achieving the proper ...
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