Diversity councils

Programs such as mentoring, employee resource groups, and diversity councils that are integrated into an overall strategy can also be very effective in fostering and sustaining inclusion. 

Diversity councils offer an effective means to drive inclusion. This was supported by results of Diversityinc s 2011 Top 50 Companies for Diversity survey, based on data from 535 organizations, which showed that [cjompanies with executive diversity councils have almost twice the number of Blacks, Latinos, and Asians, and 47 percent more women in senior management, than companies without executive diversity councils ( How Effective Diversity Councils Get Results, 2011, para. 2). 

How effective diversity councils get results. (2011, July 15). Retrieved from http //www.diversityinc.com/diversity-management/how... 

Human resource procedures Performance management aV/ Setting up diversity council A /Setting up diversity office 0 / Setting up diversity network ... 

We started our journey at Weyerhaeuser by establishing an Executive Diversity Council composed of a subset of the CEO s direct reports to develop and implement the multiyear strategy aligned with the company s long-term business plan. Previously most of the attention was focused on compliance. We worked on afhrma-tive action plans. We monitored our progress on changing our workforce representation. Yet the broader business imperative was not fully understood or embraced. 

We interacted with Big School very early in its process of crafting a vision and definition of diversity and inclusion. Among other things, we educated leadership teams, gave input to the composition of the diversity council, and facilitated retreats. 

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NIMH (2001). An Investment in America s Future Racial/Ethnic Diversity in Mental Health Research Careers. Report of the National Advisory Mental Health Council Workgroup on... 

For background information on these chemical workforce issues see Women in the Chemical Workforce, National Research Council, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 2000 Minorities in the Chemical Workforce Diversity Models that Work, National Research Council, The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C., 2003. 

National Research Council, Evaluating Human Genetic Diversity, Washington, DC National Academy Press (1997). 

Levy, R., "Cultural Diversity and Pharmaceutical Care," National Pharmaceutical Council, Virginia (1999). 

The majority of Governments comply with their treaty obligations and provide the Board with information on seizures of substances used in the illicit manufacture of drugs. In addition, in accordance with Economic and Social Council resolution 1995/20 of 24 July 1995, most States and territories are providing voluntary information on licit trade in, uses of and requirements in scheduled substances, which is essential for preventing diversion. All the major... 

A second change has been a great emphasis on treatment aimed at crime reduction, with expansion of services in the UK and elsewhere which can really be seen as another wave , following the major one in the 1990s after the recognition of the HIV threat (Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs 1989). Many schemes have been set up to enable diversion ... 

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