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2010 Minority Conference on Recruiting and Retention in Las Vegas

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Diversity and

the selection committee

Is the

TAIL WAGGING

the DOG ?

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What is the purpose of the committee ?

• Search ?• Screening ?• Selection ?

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What is the office of the Chair?

• Hiring Official ?• Level ?• Role(s) ?• Qualifications ?

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Are Ex-Officio members necessary ?

• HR ?• Office of Diversity & EEO ?• Faculty Senate ?• Students ?• Union ?

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Essential elements of an effective selection committee ?

• Who selects ?• Timing ?• Size ?• Organizational area ?• Representation ?• Special roles ?

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What are the essential traits of a selection committee ?

• Trainable/adaptable to new processes ?

• Knowledge of position?• Previous experience ?• Challenge conventional

assumptions ?

• Familiarity with candidates?

• Assertiveness ?• Self-awareness ?• Confidential ?• Able to mediate

conflict

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By the Bernard Hodes Group:

• 96% of Undergraduate and Graduate Students of Color Indicate: Professors of Color Have Positively Impacted Their Education.

• 83 % of White Undergraduate and Graduate Students Indicate: Professors of Color Have Positively Impacted Their Education.

Recent Survey

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Diversity – EEO – AA ?

• Does anyone really know the difference between diversity, inclusion, equity, EEO, and AA in the pursuit of a qualified diversified workplace ?

• Aren’t those terms contradictory ?

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Affirmative Action Postures

1. Passive nondiscrimination. A willingness in hiring, promotion, and pay decisions to treat the races and the sexes alike.

1. Passive nondiscrimination. A willingness in hiring, promotion, and pay decisions to treat the races and the sexes alike.

2. Pure affirmative action. A concerted effort to enlarge the pool of applicants so that no one is excluded because of past or present discrimination.

2. Pure affirmative action. A concerted effort to enlarge the pool of applicants so that no one is excluded because of past or present discrimination.

3. Affirmative action with preferential hiring. A company systematically favors minorities and women in the actual decisions of selecting its workforce.

3. Affirmative action with preferential hiring. A company systematically favors minorities and women in the actual decisions of selecting its workforce.

4. Hard quotas. A company specifies numbers or proportions of minority group members that must be hired.

4. Hard quotas. A company specifies numbers or proportions of minority group members that must be hired.

Soft Heavy-Handed

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DIVERSITY = QUALITY

1. IS HIRING FOR QUALITY & DIVERSITY EQUIVALENT ?

2. IS PRESENCE OF TALENT EXCLUSIVE ?

3. WHAT ARE THE ESSENTIAL VARIABLES ?– AVAILABILITY (RECRUITING)– FAIRNESS (SELECTION)

4. DO YOU HOLD MANAGERS ACCOUNTABLE?

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ESSENTIAL FACTORS

BUSINESS MODEL Allocate resources, manpower, time Fund research to create business plan Assign most talented people to project Pay for result / Recognize efforts Monitor program – short/long term Hold team accountable

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ESSENTIAL FACTORS

DIVERSITY MODEL

– Foster accountabilities– Push down through every level– Make it condition of continued employment– Tied to performance goals, objectives, pay,

etc.– Create “scorecard”

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Is DIVERSITY of gender and race essential for every selection committee ?

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Diversity Matters

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