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4 Traditional Habits Every Small Business Should Break
Many businesses have traditional habits and standard operational procedures, but small businesses may want to think outside the box.
FDA Finally Revokes FD&C Red No. 3 For Food And Drugs
The additive is banned in most countries outside of the United States.
Staying Focused on Best Practices
As massive job cuts have forced many companies to reorganize and reprioritize spending, the diversity budget is taking its share of hits across industries. Nearly half of the 452 respondents to a recent Society for Human Resource Management poll said their discretionary HR spending had decreased in the past year, and 39% said they had cut spending on training unrelated to the core business, including anti-harassment and diversity training. Ten percent of respondents said they had reduced spending on initiatives that targeted diversity recruitment, and 12% predicted that diversity-related recruitment efforts would be cut. “If diversity truly is a key strategic objective of a corporation, then it should be treated like any other key strategic initiative of the corporation,†says Joe Watson, CEO of StrategicHire, an executive search firm in Reston, Virginia, and author of Without Excuses: Unleash the Power of Diversity to Build Your Business (St. Martin’s Press; $24.95). “That is a test in many ways to show whether a company’s rhetoric matches its reality.†We’ve looked at two companies that are working to continue efforts to make diversity a business imperative to grow their bottom lines.
Black Enterprise’s Most Anticipated Movies Of 2015
If the players in Tinsel Town handle their cards right, 2015 promises to be one of the best years for cinema in quite some time. Celebrated releases from Gus Van...