Employee-Resource Groups

Measurable results from employee-resource groups include improved recruitment, talent development, retention and marketplace success.

• Talent Development: It’s Everyone’s Job
  

  Get your entire organization to contribute to and develop a healthy and diverse management pipeline.Read More

• Do White Men Really Need Diversity Outreach?
  

  How companies are showing white men what’s in it for them.Read More

• Employee-Resource Groups: Results You Can Actually Measure
  

  Real benefits make a case for this strategy to become a business standard.Read More

• Retention: 5 Strategies to Maximize Employee Loyalty
  

  This Latino employee-resource group kept its talented managers from leaving because of cultural gaps. What can you learn from their experience? Read More

• How Kraft Increased Promotions of Women in Sales by 39%
  

  Employee-resource groups are increasingly critical to companies’ bottom lines. Dell, JCPenney, Kraft Foods and Toyota offer 12 innovative, case-study examples of how to leverage employee-resource groups to increase profits and customer loyalty and enhance talent pipelines.Read More

• How Do You Include Hourly Workers in Employee-Resource Groups?
  

  DiversityInc's cutting edge-research on employee-resource groups provides data and best practices on inclusion of hourly/unionized workers and answers questions about counting members, leadership selection, charters and structures, and the role of executive sponsors.Read More

• Safe LGBT Spaces: What Schools Can Learn From Employee-Resource Groups
  

  GLSEN’s Dr. Eliza Byard, executive director, shows how employee-resource groups, like gay-straight alliances, can transform workplace experiences for people from traditionally underrepresented groups.Read More

• ‘I’m Puerto Rican—I’d Be Great at Selling Drugs’; ‘Not Married? She Must Be a Lesbian’
  

  ABC’s new comedy “Work It” has offended Latinos, LGBT people, TV critics and viewers. How can a company use its employee-resource groups, diversity councils and clarity of values to prevent multicultural missteps?Read More

• Why Employee-Resource Groups Are Business Resource Groups
  

  How can employee-resource groups be used to reach the marketplace, and what are the best ways to increase participation and find group leaders and executive sponsors? Jennifer Christie, chief diversity officer and vice president, executive recruitment, American Express facilitated a vibrant discussion between more than 50 chief diversity officers and diversity-management executives.Read More

• Networking & Sharing on ERGs, Diversity Councils, CEO Commitment, Talent Development, Mentoring
  

  Chief diversity officers from American Express, KPMG, Ernst & Young and IBM lead real-world discussions of the best practices and greatest concerns on critical diversity-management areas.Read More