ICE Extends Temporary Flexibility for I-9 Forms During Pandemic
A Form I-9 is required for all new hires to verify their employment eligibility. Before March 2020, employers had...
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Protecting Employee Psychological Safety Amid Online Harassment
Employee psychological safety, a vital factor in any organization’s productivity, is increasingly under threat. With a recent Boston University...
10 Quick Ways to Promote Workplace Wellness
April is Stress Awareness Month – 30 days dedicated to increasing awareness around sources of stress and the general...
Workplace Discrimination Against Transgender People is Against the Law.
The landmark Supreme Court case Bostock v. Clayton County, decided on June 15, 2020, clarified that federal law prohibits anti-transgender discrimination in employment. This decision was built on many victories in recent years, wherein courts and federal agencies had increasingly taken the view that job discrimination against transgender people is prohibited by existing laws against sex discrimination.
Women in the Workplace: Why Women Make Great Leaders & What You Can Do to Retain Them
Organizations that don’t realize the importance of women in the workplace are missing out. Besides doubling your talent pool, more women may also improve your company’s performance.
Is Your C-Suite Equipped to Lead a Digital Transformation?
The pandemic has rapidly accelerated many companies digital efforts, but do they have the right executives in place to lead this sort of transformation? To answer this question, the authors analyzed more than 100 search specifications for C-suite positions in Fortune 1000 companies across a broad range of industries.
Diversity and Inclusion Efforts That Really Work
A Stanford and Harvard professor convened a symposium on what’s actually working to improve diversity and inclusion in organizational life. In this article, David Pedulla summarizes the main findings.
What’s Good About Work? A lot, Employees Say (Woo-hoo!)
So much has seemed so wrong for so long. But take heed, HR professionals: Employees say there’s a lot of good about work now!
Women in Business: Advantages, Challenges, and Opportunities
With an increasing number of well-known organizations like IBM, General Motors, and Mondelēz International appointing female CEOs, the trend towards women in leadership positions seems to be on the rise. In fact, there are more women running Fortune 500 businesses today than at any point in the 63-year history of the Fortune 500.
House Passes Key Protections For Pregnant Workers
The House on Thursday passed the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, which would provide key workplace protections for women, particularly those working in physically demanding jobs.
Most US Firms ‘just going through the motions’ on Inclusion
A major new US study has found that many firms’ approaches to diversity and inclusion training has little impact when it comes to business and workforce outcomes, despite proof of the benefits such policies can bring when properly applied.
A Culture of Inclusion: Promoting Workplace Diversity and Belonging
Diversity is an important issue for any modern business. But it’s not enough to hire people of different nationalities, races, genders and sexual orientations – everyone needs to feel like they are truly welcome, safe and free to be themselves in the workplace.
What’s Intersectionality in the Workplace?
In many workplaces, the term intersectionality is becoming more popular in discussions of diversity and inclusion. But many employers aren’t sure what it means — or why it matters in their workplace.
Diversity wins: How inclusion matters
Our latest report shows not only that the business case remains robust but also that the relationship between diversity on executive teams and the likelihood of financial outperformance has strengthened over time. These findings emerge from our largest data set so far, encompassing 15 countries and more than 1,000 large companies. By incorporating a “social listening” analysis of employee sentiment in online reviews, the report also provides new insights into how inclusion matters. It shows that companies should pay much greater attention to inclusion, even when they are relatively diverse.
Eight Important Ways To Promote Inclusion And Diversity In Your Workplace
By Forbes Expert Panel Inclusion and diversity have certainly become buzzwords in recent years, but they are more than just a passing fad; They are vital elements to a business’s success. A diverse, inclusive workforce leverages the knowledge and experiences of a broader cross section of society and helps bring the business closer to the […]
Workplace Accessibility: What is it and Why is it Essential for Your Small Business?
As the owner of a small enterprise, you simply cannot overlook accessibility in your workplace. Expanding your team is certainly one of the most exciting aspects of growing your business, and you should be as accommodating to all employees.
Why Diversity Programs Fail
Organizations are trying to reduce bias with the same kinds of programs they’ve been using since the 1960s. And the usual tools—diversity training, hiring tests, performance ratings, grievance systems—tend to make things worse, not better. The authors’ analysis of data from 829 firms over three decades shows that these tools actually decrease the proportion of women and minorities in management. They’re designed to preempt lawsuits by policing managers’ decisions and actions. But as lab studies show, this kind of force-feeding can activate bias and encourage rebellion.
Diversity as Strategy
IBM’s turnaround in the last decade is an impressive and well-documented business story. But behind that success is a less told people story, which explains how the corporation dramatically altered its already diverse composition and created millions of dollars in new business.
How To Actually Hire For Diversity
From crafting job descriptions to structuring interviews, lessons from behavioral science can help you design your hiring process to increase the diversity within your organization.
What To Look For In A Disability Organization
If we really care about people with disabilities and disability issues, we should all do better than just tossing pocket change in every fundraising bucket we see, or signing up for every walkathon a coworker’s kid puts in front of us. But how do we choose which disability-related causes and organizations to support?