Hiring companies spend much time and effort — not to mention money — on recruiting Latino employees, but many Hispanic hires leave before organizations can fully benefit from their talents. Expert Graciela Kenig tells employers what they can do to reduce turnover and help Hispanic employees thrive.

Founded in 1974, Basic Diversity has offered diversity consulting and training services for over 30 years. Basic Diversity offers a series of courses and products that include such topics as the basics of diversity, multicultural team building, the business of diversity, and the principles of interracial interaction. Basic Diversity will custom design programs to fit any employer’s needs.

To implement an effective succession plan for replacing employees who age out of the workplace, companies must identify and prepare suitable employees for future leadership and other roles through mentoring, training, and job rotation.  Succession planning requires that companies develop a process for recruiting and retaining employees while developing their skills and abilities and preparing them for advancement.Successful succession planning prepares employees for new leadership positions so that an employee who has been trained effectively can immediately take the place of an employee who leaves.  Workplace diversity can also be increased through succession planning when HR and department decision makers plan for the future composition of the company as a whole.

Despite the increasing number of US corporations that are developing and implementing corporate diversity and inclusion programs, a new study suggests that poor delivery methods of such programs tend reduce their overall effectiveness. When asked to list the flaws of their diversity programs, respondents to the study said that tools were not provided to reinforce diversity training, metrics were not offered to evaluate the effectiveness of diversity initiatives, diversity programs lacked clear objectives, and diversity initiatives failed to adequately address development and advancement.

The results of a year-long study conducted by SHRM and the American Institute for Managing Diversity, Inc. have revealed that although most companies value diversity, they don’t know how to define it, and find managing workplace diversity to be increasingly challenging. According to respondents, some of the challenges to managing workplace diversity are the fact that many employees feel that diversity management is too compliance focused and places too much importance on ethnicity and gender. But the study also revealed that companies are have become more aware of the importance of diversity in the workplace A majority of study participants felt that diversity practices helped create a culture that allows all employees to maximize their contributions to their organization.

Most people would argue that workplace diversity is both necessary and beneficial to any workplace, but a recent study has concluded that mandatory diversity training is ineffective and can be counterproductive.

A new University of Arizona study suggests that mandatory diversity training can be ineffective because employees sense a hidden agenda of protection from lawsuits in management diversity directives and inherently do not believe that diversity efforts are sincere.

The numbers support this sentiment, as the study found that the number of women and black men in management positions actually dropped following mandatory diversity training.

A Diversity Advantage offers comprehensive consultation, technical assistance, and training to clients on the state and federal level as well as the provate sector and nonprofit organizations.

Sarah Lyu Consulting is provides service with an eye toward success with supplier diversity programs. Sarah Lyu has been in business for over 100 years in a variety of areas including Utility, Commercial and Government.

First Impression Management focuses on delivering training directly to the company and to provide them with a customized session on any program relevant to the organization's training goals.

The National MultiCultural Institute prides itself on being one of the first organizations to have recognized the nation's need for new services, knowledge and skills in the growing field of multiculturalism and diversity.