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What Makes a "Best" Company for Minorities?
In its ranking of the 50 Best Companies for Minorities, Fortune listed the following suggestions for fostering diversity:
• Make an effort to hire, retain, and promote minorities.
• Interact with outside minority communities.
• Hold management accountable for diversity efforts.
• Create a culture where people of color and other minorities feel that they belong.
• Match a diverse workforce with diversity in an organization's man- agement ranks and on its board.
Your Task. Assume you are the individual in Activity 3.17 who believes your organization would be better if it were more diverse. Because of your interest in this area, your boss says he would like you to give a three- to five-minute informational presentation at the next board meeting. Your assignment is to present what the leading minority-friendly companies are doing. You decide to prepare your comments based on Fortune magazine's list of the 50 best companies for minorities, using as your outline the previous bulleted list. You plan to provide examples of each means of fostering diversity. Your instructor may ask you to give your presentation to the entire class or to small groups.
Text Book: Business Communication: Process and Product By Mary Ellen Guffey, Dana Loewy.
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