Diversity Policies ‘Don’t Help’ – And ‘Make White Men Feel Threatened’
Whether it’s Silicon Valley giants such as Facebook or relatively unknown firms such as Camden Property Trust, Fortune’s No. 1 “Best Workplace for Diversity” last year, businesses around the world are scrambling to show they know it’s not okay to let white men run everything. That effort can take many forms —from diversity trainings so devastatingly lampooned years ago in The Office to actually hiring and retaining minorities and...
Facebook Pitches Solution To Tech’s Diversity Problem
There’s little doubt that there’s a race and gender gap in the tech industry. Look at any of the major tech firms’ diversity reports and you’ll see that there are proportionally fewer women, blacks and Hispanics in the tech world — particularly when it comes to engineering positions. That’s the problem, and it’s one we know well. But what could be the solution? Facebook has its own theory, which it’s trying to prove with the launch of...
The HR Pro: Diverse Reasons for Building Workplace Diversity
A tremendous amount of attention and ink has been devoted to diversity and inclusion in business circles in recent years. The 2015 CEO survey, conducted by PwC, a member firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited, shows that 85 percent of corporate executives think their companies’ diversity strategies have improved the bottom line. Digging deeper into the data, CEOs indicate their diversity efforts have had the following...
