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In August of 2006, Ted Childs retired from IBM after a 39 year career, the last 15 as the executive responsible for the company’s Global Workforce Diversity Programs. Learn more.
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Ted Childs is perhaps the most effective diversity executive...
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In August, 2006, J.T. (Ted) Childs, Jr. retired from IBM...
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The role of Ted Childs LLC is to serve as a Global...
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But when Gerstner took a look at his senior executive team,...
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- Demonstrate Leadership Support
- Engage Employees as Partners
- Integrate Diversity with Management Practices
- Link Diversity Goals to Business Goals
It's become a cliché to say that leadership matters, but the issue merits discussion here because diversity is one of the areas in which executive leadership is often ineffectual. Executives' espoused beliefs are frequently inconsistent with their behavior, and they typically underestimate how much the corporation really needs to change to achieve ...
While the six-month task force effort was consistent with IBM's history of promoting equal opportunity, the use of the task force structure to address issues of diversity represented a significant culture shift. IBM was an organization that had discouraged employees from organizing around any interest not specifically defined by the requirements of...
Sustaining change requires that diversity become an integrated part of the company's management practices. This was a priority for Gerstner, who told me: In my interviews, among the most frequently mentioned diversity-related HR practice was the five-minute drill, which began with Gerstner's top team and has cascaded down from the chairman to two l...
From the beginning, Gerstner and Childs insisted that the task force effort create a link between IBM's diversity goals and its business goals—that this would be good business, not good philanthropy. The task force efforts have led to a series of significant accomplishments. For instance, IBM's efforts to develop the client base among women-owned b...
In the early 1990s, Ted Childs, vice-president of Workforce Diversity, proposed to CEO Lou Gerstner the creation of eight diversity task forces. Delves into the organizational and cultural impediments to starting a diversity task force initiative and how IBM overcame these obstacles to implement an effective diversity strategy.
- David A. Thomas, Ayesha Kanji
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But when Gerstner took a look at his senior executive team, he felt it didn't reflect the diversity of the market for talent or IBM's customers and employees. To rectify the imbalance, in 1995 Gerstner launched a diversity task-force initiative that became a cornerstone of IBM's HR strategy.
I Definition: The goal of Workforce Diversity is four fold: (1) to identify, attract, and retain the best people of each group; (2) to create a workplace where that talent can perform at its best to maximize shareholder value; (3) to assess and understand the diversity of the marketplace and ensure we are responding to customers as they are, not...
Principal at Ted Childs LLC · In August, 2006, J.T. (Ted) Childs, Jr. retired from IBM after a distinguished 39-year career as a member of their corporate Human Resources team. Upon retiring,...
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Sep 23, 2003 · For IBM VP of Global Workforce diversity Ted Childs, the strongest argument for diversity in the workplace is that it’s good business.
