When it comes to setting rules, companies have many employee handbooks, HR principles and other guidelines in place that are clearly written out for their workforce to follow. But for some companies, there’s an unspoken…
Tag: Bias
Overcoming the Cognitive Barriers to Allyship
Allyship has been a buzzword since the summer of 2020, and we don’t expect it to go anywhere in 2022. More people than ever have expressed intentions in becoming an ally at a time when…
DiversityInc’s Recruitment and Hiring Playbook: Fair Hiring Practices
If you are feeling exhausted after reading part one and part two of this playbook, you have an idea of how much work goes into hiring diverse candidates. It’s no easy feat, and it’s constantly…
Webinar Recap: Reducing Bias in Recruiting
Moderator: Colton Palmer, Senior Partnership Manager at DiversityInc. Panelists: Mariana Mancini – Global Talent Acquisition COE Consultant at Dow (No. 19 on the 2021 Top 50 Companies for Diversity List) Anthony Allen – Senior Director…
Robin DiAngelo, Author of ‘White Fragility,’ in Conversation with DiversityInc CEO, Carolynn Johnson
During DiversityInc’s Top 50 Event on Leadership Accountability on Nov. 4, 2020, Carolynn Johnson, CEO of DiversityInc sat down for a virtual fireside chat with Robin DiAngelo, sociologist, academic and author of White Fragility: Why…
Perceptions of Pain: Black Adults and Children Seeking Medical Care Get Shortchanged
Additional reporting by Sheryl Estrada The false notion that Black patients experience less pain than white patients leads to disturbing disparities in how medical professionals treat people of different races. A recent study found that…
Webinar Recap: Limiting Bias in Diversity Recruiting
Panelists: Michele Meyer-Shipp, KPMG principal, chief diversity & inclusion officer; Marion Brooks, Novartis Pharmaceuticals vice president and U.S. country head, diversity and inclusion Patricia Rossman, BASF chief diversity officer and HR communications In this webinar,…
‘Being Black in Corporate America’: Study Offers Detailed Data on Black Professionals’ Experiences
Companies are spending billions on diversity and inclusion programs, but Black professionals are still experiencing exclusion that’s barring them from the C-suite. “Being Black in Corporate America: An Intersectional Exploration,” a study by the Center…
‘It’s Not You, It’s the Workplace’: Women’s Hostility Toward One Another is Not in Their Nature
The “mean girl” trope of women being petty, resentful and two-faced toward one another has followed them beyond high school and into the workplace. Women are often dismissed in professional environments based on this stereotype,…
Research Roundup: Cornell Study Shows Companies Prefer to Keep Hiring Algorithms a Black Box
To combat time constraints and attempt to eliminate human bias, many companies have taken to entrusting at least part of their hiring processes to outside companies that use machine-learning algorithms to weed out applicants. However,…
Reducing Bias in the Recruiting Process
Though companies make efforts to hire diverse staff, bias still creeps into the recruiting process. Not only does diversity help companies give underrepresented applicants a seat at the table, but also it leads to better…
Research Roundup: Study Finds Perceptions of Speech Lead to Class Bias in Hiring
The narrative of the American Dream — of pulling oneself up by one’s bootstraps — is a popular mythology in the U.S., but a recent Yale study found another roadblock in achieving this upward mobility:…
How to Encourage White Men to Push for Change
General Motors and Dell, Inc. discuss how they encourage white males to push for change and the benefits of doing so.