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Fighting for disability rights: Supplier certification is a key step to accountability Diversity Inc. Share     John Kemp knows all about the power of expectations, the power of positive persistence, and most of all, the power of being given a chance. Kemp, the executive director and general counsel of the U.S. Business Leadership Network, a Washington, D.C.–based organization that promotes employing, marketing and purchasing supplies from businesses owned by people with disabilities, was born in 1949 without lower arms and legs. More
Project diversity aims to create nursing pipeline Nurse.com Share
As New Mexico's health care leaders gear up to combat the state's nursing shortage — a projected 5,000 nurse shortfall by 2020 — they’re also preparing to confront a related challenge: the pressing need for diversity in the health care workforce. Project Diversity — a collaboration of the New Mexico Community Foundation, Con Alma Health Foundation, the University of New Mexico's Office of Diversity and the UNM Hospitals Nursing Division — is addressing this by building a "pipeline" for minority students from middle school to nursing college. More Stereotypes in the workplace KTVI-TV Share
 When you think of diversity in the workplace you typically think of race and gender, but in reality workplace diversity is actually much broader. If you think about your co-workers they differ in a variety of ways such as age, marital status and family responsibilities. All of these differences can lead to stereotyping which may result in workplace tension. In today's "It's Your Business" segment, our small business expert, Susan Wilson Solovic is here to talk about some common stereotypes and how to deal with them. More Perverse incentives: Why "pay for performance" could lead doctors to discriminate against the obese BNET Share
The Affordable Care Act places a high premium on "pay for performance" systems, which reward hospitals and doctors financially based on the quality of care they provide — not the quantity, as in our current system. Medicare and Medicaid have already been implementing so-called P4P initiatives. But new research out of Johns Hopkins suggests this focus on quality could inadvertently backfire on one of the patient groups that President Obama most wants to help: Obese people. More
Cultural festivities shouldn't be ignored The Kansas City Star Share
This weekend I walked into a grocery store and a mariachi band was at the front playing music in honor of Cinco de Mayo. The band reminded me that one of the biggest complexities about managing diversity is that issues outside the workplace don’t remain at the door. The outside world clocks right in with employees. More How the Arizona immigration law will impact every HR function ERE Share
Undoubtedly you have heard about the passage of Arizona Senate Bill 1070, the controversial immigration bill that makes it a crime to be in the state without proof of citizenship or legal immigrant status, but have you thought about what it means for you as an employer? Even if your organization does not employ individuals in Arizona or have employees who travel to or through Arizona, chances are the new legislation will impact your organization in one way or another. More
E-mail sparks a furor over race at Harvard Law Boston Globe Share
The dean of Harvard Law School is condemning an e-mail sent by a law student suggesting that black people could be genetically inferior to white people. "Here at Harvard Law School, we are committed to preventing degradation of any individual or group, including race-based insensitivity or hostility. The particular comment in question unfortunately resonates with old and hurtful misconceptions," Martha Minow said in a letter to the Harvard Law community. In the lengthy e-mail … Stephanie Grace, a third-year student and an editor on the Harvard Law Review, wrote, "I absolutely do not rule out the possibility that African Americans are, on average, genetically predisposed to be less intelligent." More When "non-discrimination" actually discriminates The Huffington Post Share
Recently, the FCC closed the reply comment period for its Open Internet docket. I was among a diverse array of minority entrepreneurs who filed comments that spoke to the potential negative impact that an aspect of the currently proposed version of net neutrality rules could have on minority businesses in the digital ecosystem, writes Navarrow Wright. Our point was simple: the so-called "non-discrimination principle" could have a negative and discriminatory impact on minority digital entrepreneurs and the communities we serve. More |
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