| Three-fourths of U.S. companies have policies that address diversity in to workplace and actively use diversity to gain a business edge, according to a survey released recently by the Society for Human Resources Management.
In addition to having policies addressing diversity, 79 percent of companies offered training on diversity issues, such as anti-discrimination and diversity awareness.
Of the employees surveyed, the majority (58 percent) indicated that they prefer to work for an organization that is committed to diversity.
The survey also addressed concerns regarding the 2007 reporting revisions to the Employers Information Report (EEO-1) form used by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to collect data from private employers with 100 or more employees, and from federal contractors with 50 or more employees and $50,000 ore more in government contracts.
For the fist time in 40 years, the EEO-1 from will be revised to include new job, race, and ethnicity categories and will strongly encourage employers to use employee self reporting rather than visual identification. Nearly half (48 percent) of HR managers said that their organization had done nothing to prepare for the upcoming EEO-1 changes. | 