Most Diversity Executives Say They Lack Power to Push Change
“The investment of resources into the role have left a lot of chief diversity officers with positions that are completely under-resourced in order to be able to achieve the results that they’ve signed up for,” said Tina Shah Paikeday, who heads up global D&I consulting at Russell Reynolds and is one of the authors of the study.
About two out of three of the current diversity executives were appointed or promoted to their current role within the last three years and about half of them also have other duties within the firm, according to the Russell Reynolds analysis of the executive role that included survey data from 97 executives.
The study also found that only about 35 percent of companies are capturing the demographic data they need to see if diversity initiatives are working.
Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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