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5 Reasons Why First-Generation College Students Should be a Target Population in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Efforts in the Workplace
/in DEI/by The Team at Working IDEALAuthors: Xavier Walker, Cherrie Bucknor, and Pam Coukos First-generation college students/professionals are a unique population of people who are an increasing focus for diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts at colleges and universities, and that should become a formal part of workplace DEI programs. To be a first-generation student typically means one’s parent(s)/caretaker(s) did not obtain […]
7 Ways to Promote Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Hiring
/in DEI/by The Team at Working IDEALAuthors: Ahmmad Brown and Sarah Crawford In today’s competitive job market, employers can deploy a range of strategies to attract and recruit diverse talent. The following recommendations – broken into the recruitment, candidate evaluation, and process maintenance phases – offer best practices and considerations to develop a recruitment and hiring protocol to ensure diversity, equity, […]
Working IDEAL: 2020-2021 in Review
/in DEI, Pay Equity, Principals, Products/by The Team at Working IDEALLooking back over the past two years, our team at Working IDEAL has navigated a global pandemic and seen a new sense of urgency around our work for racial justice and workplace equity. As we wrote in the summer of 2020, we support the call to dismantle systemic racism and over the last year we […]
How the Rooney Rule Can Advance Equal Opportunity
/in Principals, Rooney Rule/by The Team at Working IDEALAuthor: Cyrus Mehri As football fans gear up to watch the Rams and the Bengals clash in the Super Bowl this weekend, there’s another showdown happening off the field: the debate on how to best combat racial discrimination in the NFL. It’s a debate that has implications that extend beyond the football field and into […]
Building a Culture Code to Promote Respect in the Workplace
/in DEI/by The Team at Working IDEALAuthors: Sarah Crawford and Christian Andres Alfaro A strong culture code—which alternatively may be called a code of conduct or civility code—sets expectations about how employees should interact in order to create a healthy workplace culture. A culture code can help to foster a safe and constructive working environment in which all employees feel accepted […]
Racial Equity Assessment Can Change Your Company for the Better – If You Get It Right
/in DEI/by The Team at Working IDEALAuthors: Pamela Coukos and Ahmmad Brown If 2020 was the year of big, visible corporate commitments to racial equity, 2021 is the opportunity to make sure those commitments deliver on their promises. In the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd and the increased impact of the Movement for Black Lives, companies promised to take […]