| Cover Story |
| Waste Management - Taking the Checkered Flag |
| Waste Management’s Carlton Yearwood—Vice President, Business Ethics and Chief Diversity Officer—narrates the strategy behind Waste Management’s collaboration with NASCAR to drive diversity on the track and within the organization. Linking motorcar racing and corporate diversity may be outside the usual parameters, but it serves as a lever to help Waste Management reach other corporate-wide business goals and objectives. |
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| Special Features: |
| Front-Runner : Kay E. Hoogland |
| Motorola’s Vice President, Global Diversity & Compliance tells how the company is retooling its whole leadership and learning effort to build diversity in more effectively while going through business changes and trying to become a more seamless company. She tells, too, how Thomas Jefferson fits into her picture of things…. |
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| Catalyst Breaks Stereotypes |
| The biggest surprises at this year’s Catalyst’s Annual Awards Conference in March were the named award-winners: Georgia-Pacific Corporation and Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP. Both were honored for launching very different—yet effective—initiatives which break stereotypes and set higher standards for their industries. |
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| Annual Top Ten International Innovation in Diversity Awards |
| Profiles in Diversity Journal announces the winners of its Annual Top Ten International Innovation in Diversity Awards, recognizing and supporting companies that are investing in, developing and fostering diversity initiatives that bring the entire company into alignment with the values of a diverse business culture. The brief overviews of efforts by top winners PepsiCo, General Motors, and Shell International (and others) may provide you fodder for comparisons. |
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Employment Equity and Diversity Compliance:
The Next Corporate Certification? |
| Weldon H. Latham, senior partner with Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, says that given these consequences, the increasing occurrence of high-stakes litigation, its financial and business consequences, and the prospect of mandated EEO/diversity compliance certification, corporations are well-advised to be proactive about workplace equity and diversity compliance. |
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| In My View |
| Commentary by Rosalyn Taylor O’Neale about the state of the art and science of D&I. |
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| Catalyst |
| The Perfect Fit |
| Getting to know the unique needs of one’s organization is critical to building an inclusive environment that leverages the talents of all employees. To avoid the dangers inherent in simply picking best practices that work for others, Catalyst recommends a focused, individualized corporate environmental assessment. |
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