Diversity & Inclusion Publications

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1. 27 at Heart: Why Gen Yers shouldn’t write off their boomer co-workers.

   April 2011 | The Conference Board Review

   Gen Yers need to get used to the idea of working with a whole lot of people who could be their parents or even grandparents.

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1. Addressing the Talent Shortage in China and India: Leveraging Women in the Workforce

   January 2013 | Executive Action Report

   The dearth of high-skilled workers is a human capital challenge in India and China, where women are largely underutilized in the workforce. Leveraging women in these labor markets is essential to resolve this shortage and promote economic growth.

2. Age and Opportunity: Plan Strategically to Get the Most Out of a Maturing Workforce

   May 2006 | Executive Action Report

   If baby boomers retire as expected, there won't be enough people to do the work. Is it time for your company to panic?

3. Are You Too Young—or Too Old—to Be a CEO?

   October 2011 | The Conference Board Review

   When looking for a new top executive, the assumption that direct prior experience in a comparable role is a prerequisite to success is just that—an assumption. It’s natural to first look for the obvious candidate, but evidence shows no advantage.

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1. Becoming Skilled at Painting with Two Brushes

   March 2007 | Executive Action Report

   What are Asian and Western-based companies doing to develop the kinds of leaders that are badly needed in Asia and elsewhere today?

2. Board Asia Newsletter

   September 2012 | Periodical

   Quarter Three 2012

3. Board Asia Newsletter

   July 2012 | Periodical

   Quarter Two 2012

4. Bridging the Gaps: How to Transfer Knowledge in Today's Multigenerational Workplace

   July 2008 | Research Report

   This report/guide discusses the dynamics of knowledge transfer and explains how to apply any of 15 methods for facilitating the flow of information and insight from those who have it to those who need it.

5. Building a World-Class Workforce:
   Two Case Studies

   July 2006 | Executive Action Report

   This report details how Rockwell Collins and PricewaterhouseCoopers are innovating recruitment and retention strategies to ensure a skilled, motivated, and diverse workforce.

6. Business Case for Diversity: Good Practices in the Workplace

   February 2006 | Executive Action Report

   What do case studies tell us about the impact of diversity in the workplace?

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1. CEO Challenge Reflections: Human Capital Practitioners Respond

   September 2012 | Executive Action Report

   This report compares the responses of human capital professionals to the human capital strategies cited by 370 CEOs that ranked human capital as one of their top three challenges in The Conference Board CEO Challenge 2012.

2. Capturing Butterflies and Making Them Talk

   April 2008 | Executive Action Report

   This report looks at how to overcome the four critical challenges to transferring knowledge across generations.

3. Clearing Paths for Critical Foreign Talent to Work in the United States

   December 2009 | Executive Action Report

   The future growth of many smaller businesses may depend upon recruiting highly skilled foreign workers for key jobs. That means becoming better acquainted with the complexities of the immigration code.

4. Closing the Gender Gap: A European Perspective on New Approaches to Women’s Leadership

   September 2010 | Executive Action Report

   Women account for only about 10 percent of board directors in Europe’s top 300 companies and more than two-thirds of the 101 largest firms have no women on their executive committees. With voluntary measures to close the gender gap making little progress,

5. Corporate Diversity & Inclusion Conference KeyNotes Report

   September 2012 | Conference KeyNotes

   Integrity, Ingenuity, and Intersections: Driving Inclusive Impact for Business Value

6. Creating a Competency Model for Diversity and Inclusion Practitioners

   May 2008 | Research Report

   This report sets out a new and unique competency model for 21st century D&I practioners.

7. Creating a Competency Model for Diversity and Inclusion Practitioners

   May 2008 | Council Perspectives

   This report sets out a new and unique competency model for 21st century D&I practioners.

8. Conference Board Human Capital in Review: Focus on Diversity & Inclusion (Vol. 1, No. 1, 2011)

   October 2011 | Human Capital in Review

   The Human Capital in Review series is designed for the busy human capital executive who values filtered and thoughtfully summarized highlights of significant ideas, topics, research, and trends in diversity and inclusion.

9. Conference Board Human Capital in Review™: Focus on Diversity & Inclusion (Vol. 2, No. 1, 2012)

   March 2012 | Human Capital in Review

   The Human Capital in Review series is designed for the busy human capital executive who values filtered and thoughtfully summarized highlights of significant ideas, topics, research, and trends in diversity and inclusion.

10. Conference Board Human Capital in Review™: Focus on Diversity & Inclusion (Vol. 2, No. 2, 2012)

    May 2012 | Human Capital in Review

    The Human Capital in Review series is designed for the busy human capital executive who values filtered and thoughtfully summarized highlights of significant ideas, topics, research, and trends in diversity and inclusion.

11. Conference Board Human Capital in Review™: Focus on Diversity & Inclusion (Vol. 2, No. 4, 2012)

    December 2012 | Human Capital in Review

    This publication is designed for the busy human capital executive who values selected and thoughtfully summarized article reviews of what is happening in the area of diversity and inclusion.

12. Conference Board Human Capital in Review™: Focus on Diversity & Inclusion (Vol. 3, No. 1, 2013)

    April 2013 | Human Capital in Review

    This publication is designed for the busy human capital executive who values selected and thoughtfully summarized article reviews of what is happening in the area of diversity and inclusion.

13. Conference Board Human Capital in Review™: Focus on Diversity and Inclusion (Vol. 2, No. 3, 2012)

    September 2012 | Human Capital in Review

    This publication is designed for the busy human capital executive who values selected and thoughtfully summarized article reviews of what is happening in the area of diversity and inclusion.

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1. Diversity and Inclusion: Global Challenges and Opportunities

   January 2010 | Council Perspectives

   This report, which is based on a joint meeting of The Conference Board Diversity and Inclusion Councils, offers insights into both the external and internal hurdles companies face when they try to implement a global diversity program.

2. Diversity and Profitability: Making the Connections

   January 2006 | Executive Action Report

   Demographic changes in Europe, combined with government regulations, are putting pressure on companies to increase the diversity of their workforces.

3. Diversity: An Imperative for Business Success

   October 1999 | Research Report

   This conference report addresses the business rationale behind implementing diversity and tools for making inclusiveness a reality within companies.

4. Diversity Executive: Tasks, Competencies, and Strategies for Effective Leadership

   October 2001 | Research Report

   Seventy-one diversity executives, representing some of America's leading corporations, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations, share best practices and recommendations on setting standards for effective diversity leadership.

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1. Europe's Progress in Promoting Work-Life and Diversity in the Workplace

   January 2007 | Executive Action Report

   Comprehensive anti-discrimination legislation now covers all 27 member states of the European Union. This report looks at a series of best practices now being implemented at major companies throughout Europe.

2. European Perspective: Using Diversity and Work-Life Solutions to Retain a Competitive Edge

   November 2003 | Executive Action Report

   This report finds organizations that master the ability to effectively address the needs, challenges, and opportunities that diversity represents will be the ones that thrive globally.

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1. Faith at Work: What Does It Mean to Be a “Faith-Friendly” Company?

   November 2006 | Executive Action Report

   Though in its early stages, the "faith-at-work movement" is demanding serious attention from employers. How companies frame their response will determine if the issue becomes a legal minefield or a source of competitive advantage.

2. Faith at Work: What Does It Mean to Be a “Faith-Friendly” Company?

   November 2006 | Council Perspectives

   Though in its early stages, the "faith-at-work movement" is demanding serious attention from employers. How companies frame their response will determine if the issue becomes a legal minefield or a source of competitive advantage.

3. Fitting the Work to the Worker: Recruiting, Engaging, and Retaining Employees with Disabilities

   August 2010 | Executive Action Report

   This year is the 20th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. What are the barriers to and benefits of hiring and retaining people with disabilities?

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1. Globalization: Will Your Company Be Left Standing?

   December 2005 | Executive Action Report

   New market realities may compel mid-market companies to adopt a business model that powers growth through product innovation, as well as improved operational effectiveness.

2. Go Ahead: Sweat the Small Stuff

   June 2005 | Executive Action Report

   Microinequities among your fellow workers are more damaging than one might think - both to the left out employee and to the company itself.

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1. HR: You're Doing It Wrong: Jones vs. Anastasijevic

   July 2012 | The Conference Board Review

   Columnist Laurie Ruettimann explains how people with difficult last names have a harder time getting hired and promoted.

2. HR: You're Doing It Wrong: Your Colleague Smells Bad. And?

   October 2012 | The Conference Board Review

   Columnist Laurie Ruettimann examines HR's role in defusing uncomfortable workplace situations.

3. Hispanics in the Workplace: Building Meaningful Diversity

   March 2006 | Executive Action Report

   This report explores current conditions and anticipated changes in both the overall Hispanic community and the Mexican, Central and South American, Puerto Rican, Cuban, and other Hispanic populations.

4. Huddled Masses? Why Helping Immigrants Helps Companies

   September 2008 | Executive Action Report

   Immigration is a hot-button issue. When it comes to corporate philanthropy, the target should be immigrant integration. The payoff to both business and society can be handsome.

5. Huddled Masses? Why Helping Immigrants Helps Companies

   September 2008 | Council Perspectives

   Immigration is a hot-button issue. When it comes to corporate philanthropy, the target should be immigrant integration. The payoff to both business and society can be handsome.

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1. LGBT in the Workplace and Marketplace

   July 2012 | KnowlEdge Series Summaries

   The LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) population is no longer merely included in corporate strategy, but is a focus of that strategy, as companies try to attract both LGBT talent and market share.

2. Leadership Challenges for Indian Companies

   October 2006 | Executive Action Report

   Tomorrow's Indian business leaders must be master strategists, able to manage change as well as relationships and networks, and perhaps most importantly demonstrate the ability to develop new leaders.

3. Leadership, Governance, and Accountability: A Pathway to a Diverse and Inclusive Organization

   August 2008 | Research Report

   This report has profiled organizations that have strategically aligned diversity and inclusion practices with general business goals.

4. Leveling the Playing Field: Attracting, Engaging, and Advancing People with Disabilities

   February 2013 | Research Report

   An Executive Summary report and a full Research Report are available, based on the work of The Conference Board Research Working Group on Improving Employment Outcomes for People with Disabilities

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1. Managing Diversity for Sustaining Competitiveness

   September 1997 | Research Report

   The diversity of your workforce can be a big advantage for you — if you know how to harness it. Here's how.

2. Managing the Mature Workforce

   July 2005 | Research Report

   The report’s goal is to uncover the degree to which labor shortages and aging workforce issues are being recognized by corporations, and explore what is being done to address them in terms of best practices.

3. Meeting the Challenges of a Dispersed Workforce: Managing Across Language, Culture, Time and Location

   November 2008 | Research Report

   This Working Group Report discusses issues like payoff from effective distance management, and selecting and developing employees for distance work.

4. Meeting the Challenges of a Dispersed Workforce: Managing Across Language, Culture, Time and Location

   November 2008 | Key Findings

   This Working Group Report discusses issues like payoff from effective distance management, and selecting and developing employees for distance work.

5. Men Not at Work: Q&A with Hanna Rosin

   October 2012 | The Conference Board Review

   The modern economy is better suited to women, says Hanna Rosin, and men have so far been unable or unwilling to adjust.

6. Middle Managers: Engaging and Enrolling the Biggest Roadblock to Diversity and Inclusion

   April 2007 | Council Perspectives

   Middle management is essential to the success of any diversity initiative – playing a key role in hiring, development and promotion decisions. But they're often at direct odds with diversity practitioners, who by definition challenge the status quo.

7. Middle Managers: Engaging and Enrolling the Biggest Roadblock to Diversity and Inclusion

   April 2007 | Executive Action Report

   Middle management is essential to the success of any diversity initiative — playing a key role in hiring, development and promotion decisions. But they're often at direct odds with diversity practitioners, who by definition challenge the status quo.

8. Mind the Gap: Overcoming Organisational Barriers to Develop Inclusive Leaders

   August 2010 | Council Perspectives

   This report looks at the challenges Diversity and Inclusion (D&I),Talent Management, and Leadership Development professionals face in creating a corporate culture that embraces D&I as a core leadership trait, one that permeates functions and business unit

9. Mistreatment: No organization tolerates bullying, so why do so many workers continue to feel abused?

   July 2012 | The Conference Board Review

   Bosses have tormented workers ever since there were workers to torment, but only recently have we become sensitized to what studies indicate is four times more common than sexual harassment.

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1. Nothing in Common: How to do business in a world of difference

   July 2012 | The Conference Board Review

   Understanding the ways and whys of people unlike yourself is key to winning and keeping customers, managing today’s workforce, and relating to the activists who have an increasingly influential voice in where and how a company does business.

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1. On The Record With Jose Antonio Fernandez Carbajal

   August 2008 | Executive Action Report

   Jose Antonio Fernandez Carbajal, CEO of FEMSA, S.A. de C.V., Monterrey, Mexico, shares his views on the importance of having multicultural and multilingual talent as well as protecting a company's intellectual property.

2. On The Record with Ivan Seidenberg

   July 2008 | Executive Action Report

   The CEO of Verizon Communications, Inc., New York, New York, explains the importance of developing global managerial talent and implementing cost control methods.

3. On the Record with J. Doug Pruitt

   July 2008 | Executive Action Report

   The CEO of Sundt Construction, Tempe, Arizona, explains the importance of managing change, fostering innovation and the need for diversity and multi-generational knowledge sharing in today's competitive business environment.

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1. Putting Women on Equal Footing

   April 2003 | Executive Action Report

   For women, the road to gender parity in the corporate world is potholed with "microinequities," such as being interrupted or ignored, having ideas credited to male colleagues, being excluded from activities, and having to deal with jokes that target women

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1. Sleepless in Delhi: What Keeps Indian HR Executives Awake at Night?

   June 2011 | Executive Action Report

   India presents unique business challenges, challenges that a number of human resource executives in India were happy to discuss with The Conference Board.

2. State of Human Capital 2012: False Summit

   October 2012 | Research Report

   This report is the result of a joint research effort by The Conference Board and McKinsey & Company to highlight the most significant challenges facing human capital executives.

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1. Talent Management Tomorrow: Seeing Around the Corner to Meet Strategic Business Needs

   September 2012 | Council Perspectives

   This report, the work of eight councils of The Conference Board worldwide in the area of talent management, assesses the current state of the function and then “peeks around the corner” to see what challenges lie ahead.

2. Think Different? Real diversity means getting past groupthink.

   October 2012 | The Conference Board Review

   How is it possible that organizations have achieved outward diversity but not diversity of thought? This article explains.

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1. A View From the Top:
   The Challenge of Building A Global Workforce

   March 2007 | Executive Action Report

   Last November, a group of CEO panelists discussed the redistribution of jobs outside the United States with both optimism and concern.

2. Valuing Experience: How to Motivate and Retain Mature Workers

   April 2003 | Research Report

   This report examines the perspectives of HR executives and professionals on how to meet the needs of mature workers, attack workplace stereotypes, and encourage the transfer of valuable knowledge and skills.

3. Voices of Experience: Mature Workers in the Future Workforce

   November 2002 | Research Report

   Presents the results of the Board's Life Planning Survey, which explored the retirement intentions and perspectives of 1645 employees aged 50 and above.

4. Volunteering- A New Training and Transition Tool

   September 2011 | Executive Action Report

   Challenging times call for companies of all sizes to be more creative about how they do business, and how they inspire and motivate their employees.

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1. When an Employee's Freedom of Religion Crosses Paths with a Company's Interests

   September 2007 | Executive Action Report

   As religion increasingly collides with corporate policies and practices, companies are asking what is and isn't permissible behavior — for workers and for themselves.

2. Where Are the Women Directors?

   September 2007 | Executive Action Report

   Women are everywhere in corporate America — except on boards. Here's how to change that.

3. Women Advance Slowly But Surely in Top Management Ranks

   July 2003 | Executive Action Report

   Although few senior male managers openly deride women's corporate ambitions, many—either consciously or unconsciously—undermine them.

4. Women and Leadership: Creating Opportunities for Advancement

   June 2007 | Executive Action Report

   With smaller numbers of U.S. workers expected during the next decade and increasing numbers of women entering the workforce, more business leaders are realizing that competing globally will require making good use of all their human resources.

5. Women in Leadership: Putting Diversity Policies into Practice

   August 2004 | Executive Action Report

   Most large companies have diversity policies in place that include targets for recruiting and advancing more women into leadership roles, but they still face the challenges of implementing the policies successfully while growing their business.

6. Women in Leadership: The Diversity Imperative—Supporting Actions for Change

   August 2005 | Executive Action Report

   There are considerable gender gaps in employment status, pay levels, and career outlook in Europe despite roughly equal numbers of well-educated males and females. Are senior executives willing to take steps to correct the imbalance?

7. Women of Color: Strategies for Leadership Success

   June 2006 | Executive Action Report

   This Executive Action report offers some strategies for personal success for women of color.

8. Women's Leadership: Revitalizing Women’s Initiatives

   July 2008 | Executive Action Report

   Key indicators of gender in the workplace suggest that women's advancement in corporate America has plateaued or even slipped over the past few years. Still, many companies remain committed to initiatives designed to support women in the workplace.

9. Women’s Leadership Conference KeyNotes Report

   August 2012 | Conference KeyNotes

   Advancement Strategies—What We Have, and What We Need: Much of the potential of women’s talent is unrealized, and creating the conditions to unlock this potential remains a challenge.

10. Work-Life and Diversity: Local Needs and Business Relevance Drive Success

    November 2004 | Executive Action Report

    Spurred on by the new European Union-wide anti-discrimination legislation, inclusion policies and practices are being adopted by Europe-based organisations. Which approaches will succeed?

11. Workspace: Unconscious Biases

    July 2011 | The Conference Board Review

    Columnist Alison Maitland asks: How do you get senior executives to address the impact of their unconscious biases?

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1. “Zionist Jews Need to Be Run Out of This Country!” When an employee makes this remark outside of the office, what should a company do?

   January 2012 | The Conference Board Review

   YouTube, cable news, and Internet message boards are making it easy for proudly ignorant people to go public with conspiracy theories and racist rants—and they are making life difficult for corporate HR reps who just want everyone to get along.