Diversity Inclusion in the Workplace!

We all want to feel that we belong somehwere in the workplace--that we have a voice and someone is listening to what we have to say. Not only are they listening to us, but also, giving us the opportunities to advance within the company. For the next 10 weeks, I will be writing a blog on Diversity Inclusion in the Workplace. How companies need to implement mentoring, leadership and executive programs. As well, as recognizing the companies who have been given awards for their outstanding commitments they have given to the value of diversity and the role it will play in their corporation.

All employees should be valued, heard and should be assets to any corporation. Corporations should embrace diversity by honoring, respecting, acknowledging, and recognizing all, races, religions, ages, backgrounds, ethnicities and cultures. And one company was recognized last year and awarded for taking those differences and building a better and stronger community for their corporation and the world in general.

"Dell became a member of the Billion Dollar Roundtable, an organization that provides thought leadership in supplier diversity and consists of 15 corporations that have spent more than $1 billion with minority- and woman-owned suppliers. In 2008, the Dell team drove $2.5 billion of procurement spending with small, minority- and woman-owned suppliers. Learn more about the Billion Dollar Roundtable at www.bdrusa.org."