Managing workforce diversity at IBM: A global HR topic that has arrived
✍ Scribed by J. T. (Ted) Childs Jr.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 72 KB
- Volume
- 44
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0090-4848
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✦ Synopsis
Today, workforce diversity is a global workplace and marketplace topic. Any business that intends to be successful must have a borderless view and an unyielding commitment to ensuring that workforce diversity is part of its day-to-day business conduct.
Success also must be measured as it pertains to a company's composition and program content. A company's management team must ask itself, "Do we look like our customers, at all levels of our business?" "Do our programs reflect an understanding of the demand for talent in a competitive worldwide marketplace?" "Is our business culture one that fosters inclusiveness and tolerance in each country where we do business?" and, most important, "Are we using workforce diversity issues to im-prove marketplace performance and grow shareholder value?"
To be successful, global companies must continue to look toward the future, and CEOs, senior line and HR management, and diversity leaders play a key role in that process. If we are to address the complex issues of the twenty-first century, such as the continuing core issues of race and gender, the growing concern over child-and eldercare, and the emerging topics of multiculturalism, tolerance of religious practices, and the full inclusion of people with disabilities in the workplace, then diversity professionals must lead, because businesses cannot get there by themselves. Workforce diversity cannot be delegated, however; this must be a partnership. Although the HR