HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

Can you tell HR Digest readers more about Hyatt’s Diversity Business Resource Groups? Our Diversity Business Resource Groups (DBRGs) were created to support workforce diversity and foster inclusive environments. Latino, Women@Hyatt, Asian-Pacific Islander, disABILITIES, and Veterans.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 13, 2017

Guest post from Angela Sebaly : As a leadership coach, I’ve spent decades observing hundreds of people who have strikingly different backgrounds and equally diverse approaches to leadership. This is just one example among many.

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HR Digest

MAY 3, 2019

"Workforce Skills Upgrade: A New Competitive Advantage" SAP is one of the few companies leading diversity & Inclusion, having implemented a comprehensive workforce skills upgrade since 2017. The HR Digest: Under your leadership, SAP successfully implemented a comprehensive workforce skills upgrade in 2017.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2022

employee value proposition (EVP), and explains how the company’s Diversity, Equity and Belonging (DIB) has put Procore on the global map as one of the top companies for underrepresented talent groups. Diversity Shake Up. Can you tell The HR Digest readers more about Procore’s strategies to raise the bar of diversity in the workplace?

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 23, 2021

An example could be a coach, teacher, or manager. What can leaders do to build more diversity into their organizations? The more diversity you have in terms of opinions, experiences, and yes, ethnicity, sexuality, etc., He previously served as executive chairman of the board from November 2011 until December 2017.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

In the fall of 2017, we set off on the first of several lengthy expeditions to Europe. Airbnb and Uber, for example, were created by Outsiders who had no institutional knowledge of the hotel or taxi industry – and that was a big part of their edge. The strongest startups build balanced, diverse teams with multiple archetypes.

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Through their survey, the researchers found that 44% of employees worldwide said that they will be looking for a new job in 2017 (in the US alone, 26% of employees said they’d be looking for a new job in the next 12 months, while 15% said they’re already actively looking for a new place to work).

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 25, 2021

In the fall of 2017, we set off on the first of several lengthy expeditions to Europe. Airbnb and Uber, for example, were created by Outsiders who had no institutional knowledge of the hotel or taxi industry – and that was a big part of their edge. The strongest startups build balanced, diverse teams with multiple archetypes.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

In the fall of 2017, we set off on the first of several lengthy expeditions to Europe. Airbnb and Uber, for example, were created by Outsiders who had no institutional knowledge of the hotel or taxi industry – and that was a big part of their edge. The strongest startups build balanced, diverse teams with multiple archetypes.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 3, 2017

Welcome to the April 2017 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! from BK Publishing for sponsoring the Lead Change Group (including this carnival) for April 2017. Jill shares, “Instead of using assessments to codify diversity in teams, leaders can learn how to notice and manage challenging workplace behaviours.”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Beginning in 2013, a handful of tech companies (including Yelp, where some of us work, Google, LinkedIn, and Facebook) began to research and release data on the diversity of their workforces. Second, having a diverse set of employees would help Yelp to customize its services for its diverse set of users. The numbers were grim.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 30, 2017

There are many and diverse ways of saving money, from using heat tape to save on plumbing costs to filling your office with energy saving fluorescent bulbs but, as with most things, the difference between success and failure is strategy. Copyright 2007-2017 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Negotiating with vendors.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 30, 2017

Here is a real example from a leader I have worked with that depicts the situation mentioned above. Dr. Linda Sharkey is the co-author of The Future-Proof Workplace (Wiley, 2017), and widely acknowledged as one of the world’s prominent thought leaders on global leadership development.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2018

Companies today spend millions of dollars on workplace diversity programs and outreach, often with little to show for it. Research has found that most workplace diversity programs fail to produce meaningful diversity and inclusion, and some have actually increased bias among individual employees. Nick Purser/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

The business case for diversity is clear. Diversity can boost innovation and employee engagement , and companies with greater gender and racial diversity financially outperform their peers. And many diversity programs fail. I asked three questions: Why do you care about diversity? For example, Gap Inc.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

For two years running, the actors’ branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has put forward a slate of acting nominees devoid of racial diversity. Having numerical diversity does not guarantee a diverse and inclusive climate. Will the acting nominees look different in 2017?

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HR Digest

MAY 1, 2019

In my own function where we’ve encouraged HR professionals to work differently, some are now coding, for example, to create chatbots on an as-needed basis to answer employee questions about benefits, on-boarding, performance management, just to name a few. A majority are trained in analytics and applying it to their work. PHOTO: IBM.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2018

You want your campaign to be inclusive and not something that restricts the idea of diversity. The senior, mom and bilingual consumers are examples of niche markets that you can target, and by doing so, you have the very real opportunity to become a market leader by exploiting the gaps that others have not yet identified.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 7, 2018

Mastering the skills to be effective in all these formats and with a diverse range of people can be a challenge, as they all require a different approach to work well. Tweets, for example, are best posted daily, but you might want to do Facebook posts every other day, or three days a week. Consider leaving a comment!

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

This was painfully obvious to us while reading the newly released diversity and inclusion report from a large Silicon Valley company: Its 19 pages never specifically address Asian Americans. demographic — more highly educated, for example, and with higher median incomes than any other racial group. Peter Dazeley/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Companies that have gender-diverse leadership deliver better financial performance than companies that do not – so addressing the gap was not just the right thing to do; it made business sense as well. Our management team was invested in this undertaking from the beginning. Commit to change. Where we are now. compared to 54% in 2016.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2017

Dozens of studies have demonstrated that more-diverse teams make better decisions than less-diverse teams. Drucker Forum 2017: Growth and Inclusive Prosperity. This article is one in a series related to the 9th Global Peter Drucker Forum, taking place in November 2017 in Vienna, Austria.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Despite recent efforts to increase diversity in tech, the hiring and retention rates of underrepresented groups in the industry remain abysmal. When I took a look at my workforce two years ago, I saw that I hadn’t created a diverse team. In order for our team to match the diversity of America , we’d need 13.4%

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2017

In PwC’s 2017 Global Digital IQ Survey, 52% rated their digital IQ as strong. Jump ahead to 2017, and that same metric is just 18%. Jobs requiring greater analytical skills, for example, grew at a 77% clip from 1980 to 2015. Diversity comes into play as well. Insight Center. Crossing the Digital Divide.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

budgeting, hiring and firing, paperwork), requiring them to perform diverse tasks and to monitor progress on a multitude of goals. For example, in 2017, Gallup reported that only 38% of managers and executives are engaged at work (the number is 29% for middle-level managers). Leaders have many responsibilities (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2018

When women behave in ways that don’t fit their gender stereotype — for example, by being assertive — they are viewed as less likable and ultimately less hirable. A study from 2017 found that men who cry at work are perceived as more emotional and less competent than women who cry. Does that same hold true for men?

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 24, 2020

I’ve seen individuals from diverse industries and cultures who are extremely proficient as individual contributors, for example, get promoted to lead small teams and, despite great promise, simply fail to deliver. Oxytocin levels increase when two people hug, for example. It’s much more common than one would imagine.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2018

For example, despite the company’s younger customer profile, men and women over 55 were buying gifts for their children, nieces, and grandchildren, making them, in fact, a very profitable audience. In 2017, sales improved 15% due to the campaigns. The vendor scrambled to give him the controls he wanted.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

One of the big reasons is that security businesses tend to look for people with traditional technology credentials — college degrees in tech fields, for example. Security businesses need to follow this example, taking a hard look at themselves to see what’s holding them back. So what’s causing the talent shortage?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

During Jeff Immelt’s tenure as CEO of General Electric, from 2001 until 2017, the company’s stock price fell by over 30%, a decline of roughly $150 billion in shareholder value. Fortunately, in December of 2017 GE’s board downsized from 18 members to 12. HBR Staff/YASUYOSHI CHIBA/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2017

This indicates that arguments about changing women’s behavior — to “lean-in,” for example — might miss the bigger picture: Gender inequality is due to bias, not differences in behavior. For example, consider female mentorship programs that try to connect high-potential women with management.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2018

By 2017 it was operating in over 190 countries, and today close to 73 million of its some 130 million subscribers are outside the U.S. internet companies have scaled internationally, of course (Facebook and Google are two obvious examples). Fernando Trabanco Fotografía/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2016

These are the companies that retain the best people, create environments where diverse teams thrive, and ultimately reap the greatest financial rewards. Additional geographies, including Africa, will be added in the next report, in March 2017. Methodology. This year’s index builds on the methodology of last year’s.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

The annual holiday party is a great example. According to a 2017 survey by global outplacement consultancy Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc., For example, the festive fallout from employee stress and lost productivity cost U.K. Unfortunately, the tools most employers use to improve company culture are backfiring.

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HR Digest

JULY 14, 2022

Dawn Jones, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer and Vice President of Social Impact, Intel, is not short on ambition. The HR Digest: Under your leadership, Intel continues to make great strides in the field of diversity and inclusion (D&I). In these past few years, you also implemented?several?strategic

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

So far in 2017, our firm, Semler Brossy, has identified 200 shareholder proposals on the environment among the Russell 3000 companies, already exceeding 2016’s total. had a diversity metric. Shareholders are seeing these connections and speaking up. Average investor support for such proposals has reached a new high of 29%. .”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

In April 2017, United Airlines encountered public outrage when an Asian passenger was dragged out of his seat and off of an overbooked United Airlines plane. You could create a taskforce dedicated to designing and improving protocols, for example, and make it easy for employees to contact members of the team via text.

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