“Culture feels squishy to a lot of people. It is squishy and hard to quantify. When you look at visible and observable behaviors – how people show up – you start to get data that gives you an organizational diagnosis of where and why people are experiencing the organization. Culture is often defined by the worst behavior tolerated. How do people treat the lowest ranking member in your organization? That is the picture of culture that people experience.” ~ Julie Diamond
Industry legends David Kong, Rachel Humphrey, and Lan Elliott have joined forces to launch DEI Advisors, an Arizona-based non-profit organization to support diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in hospitality. The mission of newly-formed DEI Advisors is to empower personal success and help women and minorities that “continue to face a broken rung at the upper levels of management.”
In an era of increasing demands for accountability and transparency in all aspects of the business, employers want to know that their employees are trustworthy and reliable. As a result, many of them are reluctant to hire people with criminal backgrounds. Second chance hiring encourages businesses to consider candidates with criminal backgrounds and make them …
Exclusionary words creep into job ads. And, some are more obvious than others. Finding them (plus more inclusive words to replace them) is a time suck. Here are 75 examples of biased language I often find in job ads, with more inclusive replacements. I divided them into categories for easier reading. Note: If you’re writing …
Tenaya Taylor of EisnerAmper, discusses a new incentive program to get staff involved in DEI efforts, as well as the accounting profession’s progress in this area.
Diagnostic Thinking CEO Dina Readinger: “We need each other to learn new ways of thinking for solving the right problem, building off new ideas and individual contributions before change can happen. We need to be constantly learning.”