Employee resource groups

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. 

Jennifer Brown Consulting. (2010). Employee resource groups that drive business. Retrieved from http //www.cisco.com/web/about/ac49/ ac55/docs/ERGreportEXTERNAL.pdf... 

Ninth, do not replicate dysfunction. We all have this potential if we are not careful and self-aware of our own conscious or unconscious biases. I have seen individuals as well as employee resource groups and other groups sometimes replicate the very culture of the organizations in which they are trying to overcome barriers. I have seen people and groups who want to be included be exclusive. I have seen groups frustrated with being excluded from a dominant culture when they in turn are not aware of their own exclusionary practices. The practice of inclusion must be implemented for oneself if it is to be expected of others. 

At Weyerhaeuser, we have strengthened our commitment to employee networks and councils and have sponsored several new business support networks, including Generation Next, Women in Action, Hispanic Opportunities for Leadership Achievement (iHOLA), Weyerhaeuser Black Employee Network (W-BEA), Weyerhaeuser Asian Business Network (WABN), ACCESS (focused on people with disabilities), our Veterans Group, and COLORS (our gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender resource group). 

You have now defined your business needs and gained an idea of the group of employees that requires attention, in order to address these. Equipped with this, you can move on to determining whether business needs can be translated into specific human resource requirements. This means attempting to translate them into competencies, their underlying components (knowledge, skills and attitudes), and experience. The following questions will help you to translate business needs into HR needs ... 

Human resources management systems for inspection differ among countries. In Australia, the same group of personnel is responsible both for licensing of manufacturers and for GMP inspection. In Cypms, Tunisia, Venezuela and Zimbabwe, GMP inspectors also carry out other dmg regulatory functions. One of the results of such an arrangement is that the different functions must compete for the employees time. Cuba, Estonia and Tunisia employ both full-lime and part-time inspectors for both functions. Other countries have full-time employees only. 

When Neo joined the group of younger employees with experience, he did not know any of the other members personally. All the participants had been chosen by the corporate human resources department, and in a firm as large and diverse as ST, it was not surprising that the others were not personal acquaintances. He comments ... 

What has been discussed thus far is only a small segment of the proeess research and development group s capability to affect cost reduction. Our production motto is that if you make it, figure out how to sell it, use it, recycle it, treat it, or don t make it in the first place Safety for the employees and our community are always our first concern and will dictate many of the decisions for a project. With safety in mind we can focus on the areas with economic impact to the project such as yields, reduction of unit operations, resources, solvent selections, and choice of reagents. This is an area of production that can offer many opportunities for cost savings however, this subject can encompass a presentation topic alone and will only be addressed briefly. 

Labor a human active resource (employee or contractor or group) who performs certain jobs directly or in collaboration with a machine. The ability of a human resource to perform a specific kind of process with specific kinds of equipment is called a certified skill. 

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