Workforce Inter-Personnel Diversity The Power to Influence Human Pro
“Drawing upon decades of her own research, Dr. Hughes provides human resource professionals with yet another useful lens to consider when designing interventions to support diversity and inclusion. Both practitioners and academics will find new ways to un
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Workforce Inter-Personnel Diversity
The Power to Influence Human Productivity and Career Development
Workforce Inter-Personnel Diversity
Claretha Hughes
Workforce Inter-Personnel Diversity The Power to Influence Human Productivity and Career Development
Claretha Hughes University of Arkansas Fayetteville, AR, USA
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Foreword
Professionally, I have the fortune to serve as the Vice-President of Organizational Development and Learning Services for a large, academic healthcare system. Being charged with setting and executing the talent strategy for the organization, I recognized the need for a supporting diversity and inclusion strategy. With the retirement of our initial Director of Diversity and Inclusion the decision was made to bring those efforts under my umbrella, and so I began a nationwide search to identify and bring in a talented individual who could help us chart a course forward. I was fortunate to talk to a wide variety of individuals with impressive and significant backgrounds in the arena of diversity and inclusion, and as I spoke with each I learned more and more about the current state of D&I work—particularly in the United States. It was clear that pioneering work had been done by these and countless other individuals and the workplace in general was better for it. We brought talented individuals in for in-depth interviews in front of diverse and respected panels, and each represented themselves
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