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A
first-of-its-kind demographics survey of venture-capital professionals
underscores many of the industry's stereotypes, but indicates venture firms may
be slowly shifting away from the norms.
The
National Venture Capital Association and Dow Jones VentureWire teamed up to
survey a group of professionals at U.S.-based venture capital firms, asking
them 20 questions on topics ranging from race, gender and age to college
degrees, investment sector focus and hours worked.
The
results, compiled from 526 responses, an 8% rate, paint a picture of the
venture cap... |
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"What questions can I ask during an employment interview?" is
a question that all hiring managers should carefully consider.
To ensure a diverse workforce, not to mention comply with state and federal
discrimination laws, certain interview questions must be avoided.
Questions about an applicant's age, birthplace, appearance, marital status,
child care arrang... |
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Tip 1: Do focus on inclusion – don’t focus on JUST the numbers.
Given the journey from Affirmative Action to “representational diversity” to
“inclusion” in the U.S., knowing the difference between “diversity” and
“inclusion” is still an important distinction for many organizations. Talented
people want to know how their un...
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Consider the following fact situations and decide if an employer must
accommodate the employee in question:
- A
deputy sheriff refuses to work on Saturday because she is a member of the
Worldwide Church of God which observes a Saturday Sabbath. Her supervisor
informs her that because the department is subject to a seniority system, he
will not even consider her requ...
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DIVERSITY is like Weight Watchers: You pick one dish from each category for a
well-balanced diet. But while that might be fine for the waistline and
nutrition, force-feeding can be dangerous to our civic health.
I'm not talking about the magnificent melting-pot stew created by immigrants
who, through the generations, layered their own rich experiences over the
bedrock of Ame... |
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Following a first of its kind report in 2006, the 2008 Racial and
Gender Report Card of the Associated Press Sports Editors, covering more than 378 Associated
Press websites and newspapers (up from 300 APSE members in 2006), was released today at the APSE
Annual Conference in Minneapolis. It measures changes from the set of baseline data for the industry
established in the 2006 Report....
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Anthem music, later called 'spirituals', and much later
'gospel' music, while having a direct and vital link
to Africa is
distinctly
American music. A music so much a part of the fabric of
the sum of American music that much of the popular
idioms of today
can be
traced, with little effort, to gospel music (for brevity,
herein I will use the term 'gospel' to
refe... |
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Wal-Mart, a leading corporate advocate of diversity in the legal profession,
is deploying new software to keep a watchful eye on its law firms and make sure
the attorneys working on its matters are diverse.
The world's largest retailer has developed new software to monitor the
diversity of its outside counsel starting this fall, said Miguel Rivera,
Wal-Mart's associate ... |
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There’s a book out titled Weirdos in the Workplace: The New
Normal--Thriving in the Age of the Individual. The caption displayed on the
first chapter of the book says, “A weirdo is anyone not like you!” The author,
John Putzier, goes on to explain that the workplace is simply a microcosm of our
world.
In the United States, people with expo...
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Industry experts are touting the Hispanic (or Latino*) market as one of
the most important strategic opportunities facing financial
institutions today. To grasp the importance of this market and the
effect it could have on the financial industry, all one has to do is
look at the numbers. Hispanics are the largest minority and the fastest
growing consumer group in the United Stat... |
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Every few months an article comes out purporting to show that hordes of
mothers are opting out of the workforce. The articles stir up controversy among
working moms and probably make some managers nervous about whether their female
employees are really committed to their careers for the long term.
And now a new study may prove that the hype about the “opt-out revolution&r... |
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Crossing the continental divide in the Rocky Mountains is easy compared with
managing across the generational divide that often exists within today's
organizations.
Consider this: I overheard a woman at an establishment in Oneonta, N.Y.,
lamenting the fact that she could not count on her employees showing up for
work. The woman, clearly a baby boomer, was not connecting with... |
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With NASCAR's diversity programs under the microscope in the wake of the $225
million discrimination and harassment lawsuit filed against it, the bigger
question becomes where the organization goes from here. Everyone's in pursuit of
the next step forward, but in talking to those intimately involved with their
future in diversity, the answer comes from the eyes of those too innoc... |
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ABC and cable channel FX have been ranked the most
gay-friendly networks by a gay-rights group.
At the other end of the scale, NBC, Fox, A&E, Spike, TBS,
USA Network and TNT all
received fail grades from the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
(GLAAD).
The second annual GLAAD Network Responsibility Index
examined 4,911 hours of primetime programming... |
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DS Editor's Note: Highly Recommended Reading on Training: Intolerance, Socialization & Inclusion
At a military training base in the southern U.S.,
tensions ran high. A minority enlisted service member returned to his work area
only to find that a noose had been left on a chair. When it was discovered who
left it, the situation went from bad to worse. It had been the uni... |
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Take the True/False
quiz below to test your knowledge of how to handle workplace problems
that can threaten the safety of you and your employees, not to mention
the financial security of your company if one of these situations is
mishandled. Answers follow the quiz.
Questions
- Your company’s progressive discipline policy should try to
anticipate every conceiva...
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There are more than 37,000
veteran-owned business enterprises (VBEs) registered in the
government's contracting database. Fifteen percent of the nation's 25
million veterans and reservists are successfully self-employed. Studies
by the U.S. Office of Advocacy show that as entrepreneurs, vets have
the highest rate of success of any group of Americans.
"Veterans
carry a qu... |
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Over 18 percent of veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan – some 300,000
troops – have returned home with symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress
Disorder (PTSD) or depression. On Monday, Pennsylvania Congressman
Patrick Murphy (D-8th District) hosted a roundtable discussion aimed at
raising awareness for veterans suffering from PTSD. Rep. Murphy brought
together Iraq war veterans... |
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In print, the Pentagon's policy on women in combat
looks like this: Women shall be excluded from assignment to most units
"whose primary mission" is "direct combat on the ground."
On the
ground in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon's policy on women in
combat looks like this: Women risk their lives as truck drivers,
mechanics and medics attached to comba... |
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