Best Practices for People With Disabilities
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Best Practices for People With Disabilities
Luke Visconti Chief Executive Officer(973) [email protected]
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Managing Diversity
• When someone joins my group, I don't want an attitude that says 'I am different and special - give me extra help to fit in' - I want an engineer that says 'how can I do my job the best and work with the team equally.'
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Ernst & Young Business Risk Report 2010
1. Regulation and compliance (2)4. Managing talent (7)5. Emerging markets (12)11. Inability to innovate13. Emerging technologies25. Shifting demographics
(2009 risk ranking)
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Stages of Diversity Management
Danger of raising expectations with no corresponding gains in perceived
opportunity
High-level and high-potential
regrettable loss
Increasing difficulty in recruiting
Firm diversity plan with actions,
objectives and milestones
Gains in workforce diversity
Structured ERGs and mentoring
Decrease in potential liabilities
Denial of opportunity to Stage
1 competitors
Cutting-edge diversity
management, accountability and
results
Utilization of resulting corporate cultural
competency to understand market
Increasing quality of revenue stream
Outpacing competitors
Leveraging internal and
external stakeholders to
innovate.
Thought leadership
Stage 1 Stage 3Stage 2 Stage 4
Workforce Focused
Marketplace Focused
Out-thinking Competition
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Innovation and Diversity
• University of Chicago professor Ron Burt (graph, left)
• James Surowiecki, FEI Speech, 2010:
• Innovations emerge best from communities rather than the mythical lone inventor.
• Random group may have lower average IQs than best-of-best group. But diversity gives random group higher collective intelligence.
• People *will* make mistakes in judgment. Key is to get crowd to make mistakes on different areas, not same way.
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National Employment Gap for PWD
• 70% of corporations polled have diversity policies/programs in place
•2/3 of these include disability as a component
• Only 18% of companies offer an education program aimed at integrating PWD into the workplace
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Source: The 2010 Survey of Employment of Americans with Disabilities (sponsored by the Kessler Foundation and the National Organization on Disability)
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DiversityInc Top 50 Bridging the Gap7
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People With Disabilities Resource Groups
Have a Resource Group For People With Disabilities
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Generational Employee-Resource Groups
Have a Generational ERG
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Inclusive Practices10
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Best Practices
• IBM – Accessibility & Disability Central – web-based application that helps identify accommodation needs (such as computer-screen readers and live captioning for teleconferences) and accommodation options and sources
• E&Y – disability-awareness training, which includes awareness quizzes; creates yearly poster to raise awareness for National Employment Awareness Month
• Aetna – onsite fitness center, physical therapy, a pharmacy, an employee-assistance program and massage services
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DiversityInc Top 10 Companies for People with Disabilities
1. IBM Corporation2. KPMG LLP3. Kaiser Permanente4. Aetna Inc.5. Ernst & Young, LLP.6. The Procter & Gamble
Company7. Merck8. Deloitte9. Sodexo10. Starwood Hotels &
Resorts Worldwide, Inc.
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