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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 […]
10 Steps Toward Equal Pay: A Call to Action for the Biden Administration
/in Pay Equity, Policy /by The Team at Working IDEALMarch 24 will mark another Equal Pay Day, which signifies how far into the year women must work to earn what men earned in the previous year. Pay gaps for women of color are even greater. Without decisive action, these persistent pay gaps will not close for decades. To move the dial on equal pay, […]
Best Practices to Increase Engagement, Productivity, Retention, and Innovation | Excerpts from Diversity, Inc.
/in DEI, Pay Equity, Policy, Principals, Rooney Rule /by The Team at Working IDEALIt’s been over a year since noted journalist and scholar Pamela Newkirk published Diversity, Inc., an essential account of the promises many companies made to strengthen diversity, equity and inclusion, the billions spent on programs and initiatives over five decades, and the huge gap that still remains in fulfilling those promises. This acclaimed book, which […]
How the SEC Can Harness Shareholder Power to Support Racial and Gender Equity Through a DEI Index
/in DEI, Pay Equity, Principals /by The Team at Working IDEALOn its very first day, the Biden-Harris Administration made racial justice and equity, and principles of nondiscrimination and equal opportunity, top priorities on its agenda. The first of the 17 Day One Executive Orders committed to advancing racial equity and support for underserved communities across the federal government. The EO requires a review of federal […]
A Just and Inclusive Workplace is Essential to Sustain Our Democracy
/in DEI, Pay Equity, Policy, Principals, Rooney Rule /by The Team at Working IDEALIn 2017, the increased public visibility of the #MeToo movement made clear we were not doing enough to make the workplace safe from sexual harassment. In 2020, #BlackLivesMatter organizing similarly forced a broader and overdue reckoning with how deeply racial inequity runs in many institutions — including our nation’s workplaces, which need to be more […]