| 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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| Momentum: Diversity Who, What,
Where & When |
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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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