Testing the limits of antidiscrimination law: the business, legal, and ethical ramifications of cultural profiling at work.
I am not my hair I am not this skin I am not your expectations I am not my hair I am not this skin I am the soul that lies within --India Arie I. INTRODUCTION The lyrics from this popular Neo-Soul artist illustrate the...

UK triples funds for ARMM deva[euro][TM]t.
The British government and British business leaders have tripled their financial support to the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), by increasing their grant to P9 million for the next three years from just P3 million earlier pledged, the British Embassy announced. The institutions involved are The...

Career Concepts USA, Inc. and Daily Herald Partner to Deliver Career Fairs to the Chicagoland Area.
CHICAGO, Dec. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Career Concepts USA (CCUSA) and the Daily Herald newspaper are partnering to host career fair events in the northwest suburban Chicagoland marketplace in 2007. The new partnership offers employers the opportunity to reach a large pool of local job seekers and job seekers' access...

New Equality Bill: a new Equality Bill has been presented to Parliament, but will it actually lead to greater equality and diversity in the workplace?
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The new Equality Bill was presented to MPs in June, and aims to make Britain a fairer society by ensuring that everyone will have the same opportunities to succeed without discrimination, regardless of disability, race, gender, age, sexual orientation or religion. Over time, there has...

Diversity gives employers a competitive edge.
With numerous studies reporting that employee diversity encourages creativity and superior performance, perceptive employers are embracing diversity as a means of maximizing the effectiveness of their most important resource: their personnel. "The strength of a company's commitment to workplace diversity is an important factor that minority students consider when...

The top 50 diversity employers.
THE BLACK COLLEGIAN Magazine and Universum Communications, a Stockholm-based international research and consulting firm, are working together to promote workplace diversity. THE BLACK COLLEGIAN will serve as Universum's publishing partner for diversity-related surveys and the initial action is the publication in this issue of the results of...

Female CEOs conquer male bastions.
Byline: Kala Vijayraghavan (##include msid=47949085,type=11 ##) Reaching for the sky MUMBAI: Women must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good, or so goes the clichE[umlaut]. But women are beginning to break the 'old boy's network', setting egos aside...

UM-Dearborn School of Management Hosts Free, Public Seminar to Explore Diversity in the Workplace.
Dennis Archer, Ron Gettelfinger and Stephen Moore speak at 'Agents of Social Change?: Exploring the Business Case for Diversity' panel DEARBORN, Mich., Feb. 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The University of Michigan-Dearborn School of Management will host a seminar entitled "Agents of Social Change?: Exploring the Business Case for...

Nationally Recognized Diversity Leader to Advance Microsoft's Diversity Strategies and Initiatives.
Claudette Whiting, Former Director of Employee Initiatives for DuPont, Will Lead Microsoft's Efforts to Build Most Multicultural Workplace in Technology Industry REDMOND, Wash., May 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) today announced that Claudette Whiting, a 20-year industry veteran and...

Diversity helps BMO strike gold in PAR.
On Feb. 17, BMO Financial Group became the first financial institution to achieve gold standing in the Progressive Aboriginal Relations (PAR) program. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] But considering that developing positive relationships with the Aboriginal community has been a priority at BMO for more than a decade,...