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SKU: Volume 7 Issue 3 May/Jun 2005

Cover Story
Waste Management - Taking the Checkered
Flag
Waste Management’s Carlton Yearwood—Vice
President, Business Ethics and Chief Diversity Officer—narrates the
strategy behind Waste Management’s collaboration with NASCAR to drive
diversity on the track and within the organization. Linking motorcar
racing and corporate diversity may be outside the usual parameters, but
it serves as a lever to help Waste Management reach other corporate-wide
business goals and objectives.
 
Special Features:
Front-Runner : Kay E. Hoogland
Motorola’s Vice President, Global Diversity &
Compliance tells how the company is retooling its whole leadership and
learning effort to build diversity in more effectively while going
through business changes and trying to become a more seamless company.
She tells, too, how Thomas Jefferson fits into her picture of things….
 
Catalyst Breaks Stereotypes
The biggest surprises at this year’s Catalyst’s
Annual Awards Conference in March were the named award-winners:
Georgia-Pacific Corporation and Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP. Both
were honored for launching very different—yet effective—initiatives
which break stereotypes and set higher standards for their industries.
 
Annual Top Ten International Innovation
in Diversity Awards
Profiles in Diversity Journal announces the
winners of its Annual Top Ten International Innovation in Diversity
Awards, recognizing and supporting companies that are investing in,
developing and fostering diversity initiatives that bring the entire
company into alignment with the values of a diverse business culture.
The brief overviews of efforts by top winners PepsiCo, General Motors,
and Shell International (and others) may provide you fodder for
comparisons.
 
Employment Equity and Diversity
Compliance:
The Next Corporate Certification?
Weldon H. Latham, senior partner with Davis
Wright Tremaine LLP, says that given these consequences, the increasing
occurrence of high-stakes litigation, its financial and business
consequences, and the prospect of mandated EEO/diversity compliance
certification, corporations are well-advised to be proactive about
workplace equity and diversity compliance.
 
In My View
Commentary by Rosalyn Taylor O’Neale about the
state of the art and science of D&I.
 
Catalyst
The Perfect Fit
Getting to know the unique needs of one’s
organization is critical to building an inclusive environment that
leverages the talents of all employees. To avoid the dangers inherent in
simply picking best practices that work for others, Catalyst recommends
a focused, individualized corporate environmental assessment.
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