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Can HR really fix organisations’ diversity problems?

cipHR

It’s time for a new approach to improve workplace diversity and inclusion – one focused on changing the environment in order to “de-weaponise the cultures that we oversee,” argued John Amaechi, a former NBA basketball player turned organisational psychologist, at the CIPD Festival of Work 2020. It all starts with hiring.

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How Companies Identify Talent with Janine Nicole Dennis & Kage Spatz

Thrive Global

She has also been featured by Entrepreneur, Fast Company, Black Enterprise, and Ebony Magazines. From 2005 to 2014, my career in human resources took me through healthcare, staffing, pharmaceuticals, home care, and R&D filling various roles. I seek diversity. In 2013, Ms.

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Kellogg Company’s Melissa Howell on The Value of Recruiting Veteran Talent

HR Digest

From the vantage point of a lifelong career in human resources, Melissa Howell talked with The HR Digest about the various Diversity & Inclusion programs which have put Kellogg on the global map as one of the top companies for veterans, LGBT employees, and executive women. People are at the core of this strategy.

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It’s “Like” Harnessing Analogies to Accelerate HR

Visier

“Like, I’ve been doing this podcast for like, eight years now, but there’s like one language peeve that I’ve never thought to write about, so when a listener asked me about it, I was like, ‘I can’t believe we’ve never covered this before!’ – Grammar Girl, 2014. They help to engage diverse “mental models” of constituents.

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Blind Hiring in 2019

Astron Solutions

While legal compliance is an important goal, a more beneficial result of fair, balanced, and equitable hiring practices is a more diverse workforce. Increased organizational diversity and inclusion leads to greater organizational success. Blind hiring could remove these challenges from the hiring process. Measure results.

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Kellogg VP Priscilla Koranteng: “Why diversity and inclusion is an investment that leads to true competitive business advantages”

Thrive Global

In my opinion, the goal must be to harness the power of diversity in the workplace, the marketplace and the communities in which we work and live. Diversity and inclusion is an ongoing commitment and investment that leads to true competitive business advantages. I had the distinct pleasure to interview Priscilla Koranteng.

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Amar Wala: “Scripted work opens more doors than documentary”

Thrive Global

His debut feature, The Secret Trial 5 (2014), established him as a daring new voice in Canadian cinema. The film was recently named one of the Top Ten Canadian Documentaries of the Decade by RealScreen Magazine. We are very interested in diversity in the entertainment industry. Thank you so much for doing this with us!