In This Issue
A Show of Support for Employees Facing Health Threats
Workforce Management
Work-site support groups for certain health conditions can make employees feel valued, bolster morale and even improve employee retention, say some of the companies that sponsor them. Those employers believe in their value, but use of such groups is not widespread—probably because there's little hard evidence to show that they lower health care costs.
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Female Executives' Top 10 Companies
NAFE
National Association for Female Executives has announced this year's NAFE Top 10 Companies. To be named a NAFE Top Company, companies must have two or more women on the board and a high percentage of women reporting to the CEO, residing as corporate executives, running succession plans, earning top compensation and participating in other culture-shaping programs.
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An Equality and Diversity Benchmark Standard for Employers
Evening Gazette
As part of the strategy for improving equality of opportunity for workers in the region, Equality North East has developed a user friendly benchmarking standard for small and medium employers to assess how well they deal with equality and diversity issues within the workplace. The standard has been designed as a practical tool to support businesses in being an “employer of choice” for current employees and prospective applicants and also, importantly, for the potential customers who may use the services and products of that organization.
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Blacks in Top Jobs Still Relatively Few
The Enquirer
Growing up in Middletown, J. Phillip Holloman said he aspired to be an engineer or possibly "White House chief of staff." Holloman, 52, who was recently named president and chief operating officer at Cintas Corp., joined the nation's largest uniform supplier 12 years ago after working in construction management at Procter & Gamble Co. and other area firms.
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Focus on Diversity
FIRST-EVER HANDBOOK FOR AFFINITY & EMPLOYEE RESOURCE GROUP LEADERS
Diversity Best Practices (DBP) is pleased to announce the upcoming June 2008 publication of the pioneering Handbook for Affinity and Network Leadership: Powerful Tools for Employee Resource Groups. The Handbook features 14 robust sections covering budgeting, chartering, bylaws, executive support, measuring impact, and innovative best practices. This unique tool also offers an additional 60 exciting pages of corporate network and affinity group profiles. Also included are nearly two dozen exclusive insider case studies from top corporations such as The Coca-Cola Company, Ford Motor Company, and Johnson & Johnson. This is one hard-hitting business resource you absolutely cannot afford to miss and will want in the hands of each of your affinity group leaders! Receive this Handbook FREE (a $99 value) by registering now for our Network & Affinity Leadership Congress (NALC) taking place in NYC on June 4-5, or pre-order your copy of this powerful publication today by contacting Megan Donnelly at donnelly@diversitybestpractices or calling 202-466-8209.
Diverse Holidays
May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month.
Yom HaShoah, recognized on May 2nd, is the Holocaust Remembrance Day, a secular rather then a religious holiday established by the government of Israel.
Cinco de Mayo is celebrated on May 5th to commemorate a battle that was won on this day in 1862 during the years that the Mexicans were struggling to drive foreign armies from the country and became an independent nation. |
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The consulting firm’s growth strategies hinge on its ability to blend employees from four different eras into a cohesive workforce. Stanton Smith has written the book on the widening generation gap in the American workplace—literally. His book, Decoding Generational Differences: Fact, Fiction, or Should We Just Get Back to Work? is part of a cultural learning exercise at Deloitte.
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The Coca-Cola Co. legal department has created a strategy to promote diversity in the legal profession and sent a directive to its outside counsel with the inauguration of its annual award, "Living the Values." After reviewing diversity and inclusion practices of its 18 U.S. partner law firms, Coke chose Kansas City, Mo.-based Shook, Hardy & Bacon as the first award recipient.
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Whoever says Ford Motor Co. is not changing under CEO Alan Mulally should start paying attention. In the year and a half that he has been at the helm, he has downsized Ford's North American operations and negotiated a game-changing contract with the United Auto Workers. He has assembled a global leadership team, outlined his vision for integrating Ford's global operations and is leading a cultural transformation that is shattering the old ways of doing business at Ford.
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There are 221 million Internet users in China, according to a report by China's Xinhua News Agency. The figure -- a 61 increase over 137 million users reported at the start of 2007 -- matches the amount of people online in the United States.
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