Workplace Culture Resources
Actionable recommendations to help improve employee well-being and fortify your company’s culture during this challenging time.
Learn strategies for how to implement a transparent compensation structure that equitably rewards employees for their work.
Tips for how to build effective teams by making conflict more productive in the workplace.
"The magic ingredient to get employees to stick around? Career transparency - a clear sense among employees of how they can grow in their jobs and how the company will support their efforts to reach their goals."
"A growing number of tech employees who raise issues of discrimination say that part or all of the company's reaction has been to suggest counseling or medical leave, rather than addressing the alleged discriminatory conduct."
"Managers could do more to advocate for employees of color by noticing if they are being socially isolated and working to help them navigate office politics."
Check out the research and studies below.
This study highlights the reasons why employees from underreperesented groups are leaving tech. More importantly the research includes an analysis of which D&I efforts have the biggest impact on encouraging these employees to stay.
Going beyond the data first published in their "Why Diversity Matters" report, this new 2018 research further deepns the business case for D&I and gives suggestions for how organizations can align D&I efforts with their growth and business performance goals.
Hollywood Inclusion Rider
The Inclusion Rider is a powerful tool for ensuring equity in the hiring process and in other decisions about employment and career paths. There are four essential principles that define the Inclusion Rider
NMAAHC | Talking About Race
Talking about race, although hard, is necessary. Here are tools and guidance to empower your journey and inspire conversation.
2021 APAHM Resource Guide
Resource Guide for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month (APAHM).
California
Major Changes (effective Jan 1, 2020):
Employers with 5 or more employees must provide up to 2-hours of sexual harassment training depending on their position within 6-months of their date of hire. Re-training must be done every 2-years following initial training. This is important for small companies as the previous law only applied to employers with 50 or more employees. Online training will also be required and provided by the Department of Fair Employment and Housing.
New York
Major Changes (effective Jan 1, 2019):
Any company with 5 or more employees must conduct documented, anti-harassment training. This applies to all current employees and contractors. Training must be completed 30-days after the employees’ hire date. Continued re-training is needed every year.
Delaware
Major Changes (effective Jan 1, 2019):
The Delaware Discrimination in Employments Act has widened its worker categories to include apprentices, joint employees, applicants, unpaid interns, agency individuals and state employees. This means, retroactively and moving forward, employers will need to act if anyone, falling under these categories, reports/has reported experiencing sexual harassment by a supervisor or by another employee.
Employers with 50 or more employees will need to provide documented, sexual harassment training to all current employees within 1-year of their date of hire. This includes and applies to any employee being promoted to a supervisory position as well.
Note: Training must be held for all current employees in 2019. Re-training is to be continued every 2-years for all employees.
Black-Owned Bookstores
Non-Fiction Reading List
We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice, Mariame Kaba (2021)
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents,Isabel Wilkerson (2020)
How to be an Antiracist: Ibram X. Kendi (2019)
Eloquent Rage, Brittney Cooper (2018)
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, Robin DiAngelo (2018)
The End of Policing, Alex Vitale (2017)
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, Bryan Stevenson (2014)
March Trilogy, John Lewis (2013)
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (2012)
The History of White People, Nell Irvin Painter (2010)
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander (2010)
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches, Audre Lorde (1984)
Ain’t I a Woman, Bell Hooks (1981)
Fiction Reading List
The Nickel Boys, Colson Whitehead (2019)
Girl, Woman, Other, Bernardine Evaristo (2019)
An American Marriage, Tayari Jones (2018)
Sing, Unburied, Sing, Jesmyn Ward (2017)
Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi (2016)
Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2013)
Ceremony, Leslie Marmon Silko (1977)
The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison (1970)
The Street: A Novel, Ann Petry (1946)
