Level Playing Field Institute

Accelerating the Growth of Businesses Owned by Women of Color

• LIT Review (PDF)
• LIT Brochure (PDF)

Center for Women's Business Research

National poll on the American workers' values and perceptions of fairness

HOW-FAIR - An In-Depth Look at Inappropriate Behavior in the Workplace

Level Playing Field Institute

Cultures of bias in the workplace: A growing consensus on the importance of bias

Annotated Library (HTML pages)

Level Playing Field Institute

Out & Equal offers useful information and relevant resources on how to become an LGBT friendly employer.

15 Steps to an Out and Equal Workplace (HTML pages)

Out and Equal

Recruitment and retention of immigrant workforces

Winning with World Class Talent Toolkit - designed to help human resources, diversity professionals, and managers of foreign-born employees to simplify the complexities of hiring foreign-born professionals. Download it here (PDF - 11,053KB)

E-learning modules

• Finding Highly Qualified Immigrant Professionals (PowerPoint file 188KB) (accompanying materials below)
• Assessment (Excel file 41KB)
• Immigrant Network Development Template (Word file 48KB)
• Evaluating International Experience and Education (PowerPoint 118KB) (accompanying materials below)
• Resume Review (Excel 72KB)
• Cross Cultural Interviewing (link)

The Business Case and Plan for Immigrant Workers (PowerPoint 213KB)

Upwardly Global

Culture clash in workplaces

On-line tools to help employers, trainers, and trainees to be more successful in their job and internship placements

• Troubleshooting Modules - provides guidance to both supervisors and employees on how to identify and overcome many common workplace challenges, often arising from differences in expectations, experience, and culture.
• There are two sample modules included in this section, one for employees, and one for supervisors. You can also view the complete topic list.
• Expectations Wizards - These tools ask supervisors a series of questions designed to help them think about and communicate clearly what they expect from their employees, reducing the potential for later misunderstandings.
• Outlines of the four wizards are included

Full access to these tools is currently provided free of charge on an evaluation basis to CitySkills partners. To request access, please contact info@cityskills.org.

City Skills, Inc

Newsroom diversity and retention of people of color

The workbook and video Diversity Toolkit is a resource for broadcast organizations that seek to include more diverse voices both on staff and in news content.

Get free copies of both the workbook and video here.

Radio & Television News Directors Foundation

Guide to Selecting Effective Training Videos

Creating fair work environments can be accomplished in many ways. Training videos are often a key component of an organization’s strategy. Good videos can bring to life the complexity of real-work scenarios where fairness is not present, while bad videos can turn viewers off to the entire set of issues. We’ve created a guide to selecting the right training video for your situation.

Download Guide

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