Posts Tagged ‘diversity’
Report on Diversity in Compliance Teams
Compliance officers often talk about the importance of building diverse teams, but a fresh report from an executive search firm shows how difficult that push for diversity can be — including the significant portion of legal and compliance teams that don’t use any diversity recruitment strategies at all. The report comes from search firm Barker…
Read MoreAn Update on Diversity Programs
The Securities and Exchange Commission has published an analysis of diversity and inclusion programs at broker-dealers, investment advisers, and other financial firms, providing yet another reference point for other businesses about how you might structure your own D&I efforts and what regulators would like to see from them. The report was released Monday by the…
Read MoreCFPB Offers Clues on Diversity Programs
Ethics and compliance professionals looking for guidance about how to develop diversity efforts might want to visit the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The CFPB just published a report reviewing diversity efforts at financial firms and how the agency will assess those efforts in the future. Financial regulators are obligated to assess the diversity policies and…
Read MoreA Broader Look at Human Capital Disclosures
More news today for ethics and compliance professionals curious about what companies are including in their human capital disclosures — like, lots more news. Somebody just published a study of the disclosures made among nearly all the S&P 500. The report, compiled by data research firm Intelligize, examines what 427 firms included in their Form…
Read MoreDigging Into Diversity Disclosures
The other week we had a post on what companies are saying about ethics and corporate culture in the new human capital disclosures now required in annual reports. Today I want to circle back to another subset of that information: what companies are saying about their diversity and inclusion efforts. Diversity disclosures have been on…
Read MoreTrump Admin and Diversity Training, Part II
Don’t die of surprise at this news, but the Trump Administration is dragging Corporate America into its attacks on diversity training and racial equity. Compliance officers would do well to understand what’s happening and prepare accordingly. The action is happening along two fronts. First, President Trump issued an executive order on Sept. 22 that directs…
Read MoreTrump Admin Targets Princeton for Diversity
The Trump Administration has opened an investigation into Princeton University and its anti-racism efforts — claiming that because Princeton officials say the university needs to do more to fight racism today, perhaps the school’s previous attestations about compliance with federal anti-discrimination law haven’t been accurate. So says a letter the Education Department sent to Princeton…
Read MoreEthisphere Launches Racial Equity Project
Business ethics research firm Ethisphere has launched a new effort to develop a social justice framework and identify best practices that companies can use to foster more equity in the workplace. Known as the Ethisphere Initiative for Equity and Social Justice, the project is a collaboration between Ethisphere’s Business Ethics Leadership Alliance and an advisory…
Read MoreToward Better Boards, and More Diverse Boards
Well, apparently now it’s the nominating and governance committee’s turn to be hammered on the anvil of corporate governance reform. We see the evidence everywhere: a report from the Government Accountability Office noting that at current pace, women will represent half of all seats on corporate boards sometime around 2055. Calls for more women, minorities,…
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