Black Enterprise - 40 Best Companies for Diversity. Is Your Company Listed?

[SummerChild]

Black Enterprise salutes the top 40 corporations for diversity



In selecting the top 40, BE conducted a comprehensive outreach effort to the CEOs and diversity executives of the top-grossing 1,000 publicly traded companies and the 50 leading global companies with significant U.S. operations. BE’s corporate diversity survey focused primarily on activities related to the participation of African Americans and other ethnic minority groups in four key areas: supplier diversity, senior management, board involvement, and employee base. Related Items:
Recognizing Best Companies for Diversity
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Aetna - Hartford, CT

Marriott International Inc. - Washington, D.C.

Aflac Inc. - Columbus, GA

McDonald’s Corp. - Oak Brook, IL

ARAMARK - Philadelphia, PA

MGM MIRAGE - Las Vegas, NV

AT&T Inc. - San Antonio, TX

Pepco Holdings, Inc. - Washington, D.C.

Bank of America - Charlotte, NC

Pepsi Bottling Group Inc. - Somers, NY

The Coca-Cola Co. - Atlanta, GA

PepsiCo - Purchase, NY

Comcast - Philadelphia, PA

PG&E Corp. - San Francisco, CA

DaimlerChrysler Corp. - Auburn Hills, MI

Pitney Bowes - Stamford, CT

Denny's Corp. - Spartanburg, SC

Ryder System Inc. - Miami, FL

Eastman Kodak - Rochester, NY

Starbucks Coffee Co. - Seattle, WA

Eli Lilly & Co. - Indianapolis, IN

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc.
- White Plains, NY

Exelon Corp. - Chicago, IL

State Farm Insurance - Bloomington, IL

Fannie Mae - Washington, D.C.

Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX

FedEx Corp. - Memphis, TN

TIAA-CREF, New York, NY

Ford Motor Co. - Dearborn, MI

Toyota Motor North America I

[BlessedOne04]

Even though my company is on the list I would not put much weight in the survey. Alot of companies boast diversity but its only a smoke screen. I would like to see who is taking the survey, what statistical package is used to tabulate the results and is the actual survey reliable.

[SummerChild]

Hi BlessedOne04, I think that you can find this information if you go to http://www.blackenterprise.com/. I received the article in an email link that took me to the magazine's site and I think that they discuss the factors, etc.

Originally Posted by BlessedOne04

Even though my company is on the list I would not put much weight in the survey. Alot of companies boast diversity but its only a smoke screen. I would like to see who is taking the survey, what statistical package is used to tabulate the results and is the actual survey reliable.

[Honeykiss1974]

Originally Posted by BlessedOne04

Even though my company is on the list I would not put much weight in the survey. Alot of companies boast diversity but its only a smoke screen. I would like to see who is taking the survey, what statistical package is used to tabulate the results and is the actual survey reliable.

I would be too. My company isn't listed on Black Enterprises list, but we were listed as one of the top 50 companies for diversity by DiversityInc. Wow - I just did a quick review and noticed that there a lot of companies on BE's list that aren't on here (and vice versa). Guess that goes to show that people look at diversity differently.

Bank of America
Pepsi Bottling Group
AT&T
The Coca-Cola Co.
Ford Motor Co.
Verizon Communications
Xerox Corporation
Consolidated Edison Co. of New York
JPMorgan Chase
PepsiCo
Wachovia
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Sodexho
Procter & Gamble
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida
Novartis Pharmaceutical Corp.
Johnson & Johnson
Merck & Co.
Deloitte & Touche USA
Wells Fargo
Turner Broadcasting System
Citigroup
American Express
Prudential Financial
Cox Communications
Colgate-Palmolive
Kaiser Permanente
Sprint Nextel Corp.
Sempra Energy
Abbott
KeyBank
General Mills
Health Care Service Corp.
General Motors
Eastman Kodak Co.
HSBC-North America
Comerica
Cummins
MGM MIRAGE
Allstate
Wal-Mart Stores
DaimlerChrysler
Ernst & Young
Bausch & Lomb
Darden Restaurants
Marriott International
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide
Comcast
Hewlett-Packard Co.
Accenture

[futurestar1]

My current company is not listed, but my new company is (as I am claiming my new job).

[tld221]

i worked in HR for a little bit (in the diversity/employee relations area actually) and DiversityInc.'s list holds more weight. But like someone mentioned earlier, diversity in the workplace, like many areas, is a bunch of smoke and mirrors.

and 2 points:
1. many of these companies have the $$$$ to recruit AND retain diverse employees. this is how a lot of companies fall off or never make the list - either they are mediocre in their "numbers" and and cant push them up, or they had the numbers and the company couldnt afford to keep them. i was in the investment banking sector and you know they pay the big bucks to look diverse. So if Tyrone KNOWS that Bank Y will offer him 25% more than Bank X and its kinda unspoken that its a numbers game so they "look" diverse, then why the hell not?

(its kinda the same in universities - i know NYU, like other universities, can't keep a black professor longer than a couple of years because they don't offer enough pay and/or perks, especially if they hold terminal degrees, and especially when there were prof's making 6 figures easy)

2. many of these companies boast "diversity" but we are to assume that if a statistic says "company XYZ has 38% black and 20% hispanic employees" were supposed to be impressed that more than half - 58% - their staff is diverse. fine, but it doesnt reflect what kind of job they have at the company, if theyre hourly/part time, or what their turnover is. for all we know, 57% of them could be cleaning staff, secretaries, security guards, kitchen staff, mailroom folks, and a host of other "barely seen and never heard" staff members, while there's like a half a handful of minorities in middle to senior management.

[Confucius]

Originally Posted by BlessedOne04

Even though my company is on the list I would not put much weight in the survey. Alot of companies boast diversity but its only a smoke screen. I would like to see who is taking the survey, what statistical package is used to tabulate the results and is the actual survey reliable.

I agree..smoke screen.