Research has found again and again that a diverse team is a strong team capable of driving better bottom-line results than a non-diverse team. A new infographic from Adecco (shown at the end of this article) provides a timeline of workplace diversity as well as some key statistics that prove how important diversity is to company success. As you'll see from the numbers, … [Read more...]
Top 50 Companies for Diversity in 2014
DiversityInc has released its annual ranking of the top 50 companies for diversity. This is the fifteenth year that the ranking has been done. For the 2014 list, 1,215 companies with a minimum of 1,000 employees each participated in a survey used for the ranking process so they could see how they stack up in supporting diversity in comparison to their competitors. To develop … [Read more...]
Apple Needs Women and Workplaces Need Diversity
An amazing group of seven women, The Chipsters, who are also IP Lawyers, tell us why companies with women in top positions are run better and why without Steve Jobs, Apple is doomed unless they get some women in their executive team. Click here to read the original article on Forbes. I know this probably seems like an obvious fact to most of us, but how many of us actually … [Read more...]
Reinvent Opportunity, Restore Satisfaction
Guest post by LaMae Allen deJongh, managing director for US Human Capital and Diversity for Accenture (learn more about LaMae at the end of this post) Experience tells us that when employees are unhappy they look for new jobs. But what if that’s no longer true? What if, for a variety of reasons, dissatisfied employees are staying with their companies? New global … [Read more...]