Taking the Temperature of Diversity in the Workplace
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- Category: Inclusion
- Published on June 23, 2011
- Written by The Black Perspective
You've probably never heard of a company called Johnson Controls. But it's likely that a component on the seat or instrument panel of your car was made by Johnson, or that you've been inside a building where the temperature is maintained by one of their systems. Now a 7.2 billion a year enterprise, Professor Warren Johnson founded his company in 1885 to manufacture his invention — the electric room thermostat.
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Becoming an Employer of Choice
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- Category: Inclusion
- Published on June 23, 2011
- Written by Susan Shaw
However, in the new millennium, workers will change jobs and move into entirely different industries and careers an average of nine times. A nuclear physicist might open a modeling school. A kindergarten teacher may become a stockbroker. Job hoppers are likely to be viewed as flexible and hungry for new challenges, rather than as flakes that can’t hold down steady work.
High Impact Diversity Training
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- Category: Inclusion
- Published on June 21, 2011
- Written by The Black Perspective
What is diversity about? Change? Work and family issues? Experience? Different points of view? Age? Assumptions? Race? Gender? Sexual orientation? Disability? Personal style?
Orlando-Ward Associates, based in San Diego, with offices in New York City and London, provides educational workplace training with a unique twist. The company specializes in live-action professional drama as a tool for facilitating communication within organizations about issues usually too uncomfortable to discuss, such as diversity, sexual harassment and organizational change.
