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

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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.