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How Employee Resource Groups Can Create Belonging for Black Employees

Great Place to Work

You need more than an affinity group to help your people feel included. Before Great Place To Work®, my experience with employee resource groups (ERGs) was a mixed bag. But the ERG at my location lacked the “resources” in its title. But the ERG at my location lacked the “resources” in its title.

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7 Best Practices for the Career Development of Black Employees

Ongig

Supporting your employees and providing them with opportunities for career development is essential for increasing employee satisfaction and retention. But today, we want to focus on African American employees, who are often underrepresented when it comes to career advancement.

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Top 5 Tips for Recruiting Veterans

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percent are Black, and 12.1 ” So veterans recruiting goals also stretch across other underrepresented groups. Another possible goal to set for recruiting veterans is to launch new training options for employees who participate in the hiring process. Here are 5 tips we found for recruiting veterans: 1. percent are Hispanic.”

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Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) Need Better Support

WeSpire

We held regular meetings and tried to advise the rest of the executive team on how to make the company a better place to work, particularly for women, underrepresented minorities, and LBGTQ employees. We created a safe space for people to share their stories and feel heard and supported. Employee Resource Groups Best Practices.

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What does DEI mean in todays workplace

Business Management Daily

The goal of DEI is to involve and amplify a more significant number of diverse perspectives from which a company can draw. In this blog, we’ll talk about what DEI really means and how it looks in practice. Focusing on these distinct areas creates work environments where all individuals feel a sense of belonging and value.

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Race in the Workplace: What Would Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Say Today?

Great Place to Work

And people who don’t feel they can be their authentic selves at work are quitting. And people who don’t feel they can be their authentic selves at work are quitting. “If If I think about Dr. King's words and the manifestation of them, if he could project forward, how would that show up in business? What can close the gap?

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How To Help API Employees Advance Into Leadership Roles

Great Place to Work

Here’s what companies can do to help API workers advance into leadership roles: 1. Increase representation In a recent study by Momentive and AAPI Data, only 26% of Asian and Pacific Islander employees surveyed strongly agreed that “there are others like me in leadership positions at my workplace.”

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