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Workplace Programs & Research
Re-charting the Course of Diversity and Inclusivity in Corporate America
Despite corporate America spending an estimated $8 billion a year on diversity training, subtle bias is still causing people of color, GLBT individuals and women to voluntarily leave professional jobs. The reason: Businesses have failed to make the deep cultural changes that are necessary for embracing diversity. In 2007, Level Playing Field Institute is implementing several key initiatives to address this issue.
The Corporate Leavers Survey
Understanding how workplace culture and subtle barriers affect both employees and employers is a critical first step to retaining high performing talent. To meet that need, we completed the first national quantitative study to uncover the role that subtle bias plays in the reasons why professionals, especially people of color, women and GLBT individuals, leave their jobs. The ground breaking research examines the financial impact that companies experience when employees are treated unfairly in the workplace. The data from this rigorous survey is complemented by extensive qualitative research on why people choose to leave professional jobs.
Giving Notice
Giving Notice: Why the Best and Brightest Leave the Workplace and How You Can Help Them Stay, authored by Dr. Freada Kapor Klein and due in bookstores on October 19, is a riveting study on who leaves corporate America and why. Giving Notice combines groundbreaking quantitative research with stories of the day-to-day experiences of professionals and managers, and documents for the first time, the hard costs of voluntary turnover attributable to hidden barriers in the workplace. Giving Notice is already being regarded by business leaders, academics and civic leaders as a must-read. Order your copy of Giving Notice at Amazon.com.
New Website
Visit our new education and discussion website about workplace unfairness. The website features the latest data and research on hidden barriers in the workplace, a calculator to determine the cost of unfairness in your workplace, stories from professionals who left their employers due to unfairness, tips on how to create inclusive workplaces and a discussion forum including an expert panel. Visit www.corportateleavers.org.
Services
Level Playing Field Institute provides expert consulting, research and training services to companies who are serious about creating inclusive, welcoming workplaces. As exclusive partners to Harvard-based Project Implicit and innovators in using virtual worlds for immersive diversity training, we provide corporations and professional services firms with customized approaches to training, where measuring the impact of interventions is key. If you are interested in transforming the culture of your organization, please contact us at (415) 946-3030 or info@lpfi.org
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