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Making Diversity Central to Success: Q&A With Chevron’s Chief Diversity Officer

HR Digest

Diversity is an overused word, but at Chevron it’s a perfect description of its corporate culture. The company’s 2018 Corporate Responsibility Report highlights how diversity and inclusion (D&I) feature so centrally in the company’s success story. Efforts to bring more diversity to the oil and gas industry are working.

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Employee Relationships is a Serious Employer Responsibility

HR Digest

Amidst all the revenue numbers and share valuations that companies wear as a badge of honor, the concept of employee relationship management has emerged as another undeniable sign of a successful organization. What Are Some Employee Relations Examples?

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?How to Make Diversity and Inclusion Real?

Harvard Business Review

I believe that when a CEO visibly stands for openness, diversity, and inclusion, it sends an essential message to the organization. But in my company's (Campbell's) case, diversity is about more than breaking glass ceilings — whether color, sexual, or generational. Educate the organization. ? Declare yourself. ?I

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Ending Gender Discrimination Requires More than a Training Program

Harvard Business Review

In the workplace, biases can profoundly affect how welcoming an organization is to different people and ideas. Some organizations actively attempt to raise awareness of potentially harmful gender biases through training programs and policies that favor gender equality in the workplace. Iris Bohnet, Alexandra van Geen, and Max H.

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What Europe Can Teach the US About Gender in the Boardroom

Harvard Business Review

Norway has had a quota since 2002, and women now make up more than 40% of board members. Smart organizations understand that in these tough economic times, no one can afford to curtail or shut out top talent, no matter their gender or ethnicity. In other words, diversity — especially gender diversity — unlocks growth.

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IBM Focuses HR on Change

Harvard Business Review

HR has helped the organization absorb more than 125 acquisitions since 2000 , and integrate globally, saving $6 billion since 2005. We know, for example, that developing leaders is essential. For example, I have taken 8,000 HR software applications (largely focused on the HR needs of individual IBM country units) down to under 1,000.

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Finally, A Majority of Executives Embrace Experimentation

Harvard Business Review

While he was at Amazon from 1997-2002, Greg Linden prototyped a system for making personal recommendations for other products to customers as they checked out. For example , "Sony Ericsson has a policy where they don't want their designers to work more than a few hours before they build their very first physical model," said one respondent.