At the end of last year, I identified top strategies for HR in 2022. In the 2020s, HR strategies are shifting to reinstating powerful, comprehensive talent management strategies to offer employees careers with purpose, excellent pay and benefits, and equity…
Tag: Diversity and Inclusion
Economists find discrimination in recruiting by race and gender. We can change it.
Economists from the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Chicago last week released the results of a discrimination audit of 108 companies. The audit revealed that entry-level applications from candidates with a “Black name” get fewer callbacks than…
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5 Predictions About the Future of Work for 2021
Last year ended with the FDA approval of Pfizer’s COVID19 vaccine and the vaccination of the first US health care workers on Monday, Dec. 14. The US still has several months of rising COVID19 infections and deaths before 60 percent…
Four steps to reducing hiring bias, improved financial outcomes, and a $5 trillion U.S. economic stimulus
While championing diversity initiatives over the past 20 years, I have always emphasized how these actions will improve financial outcomes for companies. Now there is mounting evidence that by overcoming the racial wealth gap, which includes hiring biases, the U.S.…
Over 50 percent of job postings drive away applicants, especially women
Your job postings may be your worst nightmare, scaring off job applicants with jargon and needless clutter and driving away female applicants. If your job posting is more than 250 words and uses gender bias tones, it is time for…
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Oct 28 – Driving bias out of recruiting, performance management, and promotions
Join me and the @SHRM NorCal community for a fresh look at how to take bias out of recruiting, performance management, pay and promotions. Enroll here. The death of George Floyd in Minneapolis and the divisions in our national politics…
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Watch me and Piyanka Jain on JobSync’s podcast: Data Literacy for HR Professionals. Successful examples discussed on how data improved recruiting, diversity, and business success.
There is a misconception today that you need to be a data scientist and be working with AI or some other analytics tool to create HR measurements that connect to better HR practices and overall better business outcomes. It’s simply…
Driving Bias Out Of Selection, Performance & Promotion Decisions
The homicide of George Floyd in Minneapolis and the divisions in our national politics has dramatically raised the topic of race relations and equality at work. Diversity and inclusion is frequently a difficult subject of "haves" and "have-nots," with perceptions…
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HR Leads the Rebound: Innovation, Inclusion, and Reinvention SPARK Talks.
Join me for an exciting, live-stream ReINVENTHR event: HR Leads the Rebound: Innovation, Inclusion, and Reinvention SPARK Talks. This will be a fast-paced, interactive, and probing look at how HR can be the driver of true organizational transformation. Topics will…
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7 steps to renewing your commitment to diversity.
Over five years of writing blogs, I have noticed that posts on diversity and inclusion are often the least read. Today, are you ready to reflect on the nation’s crisis with civil rights and social unrest and the failure of…