The Many Delicate Issues of Spirituality in the Office
August 15, 2004, Eilene Zimmerman
With Americans spending so much time on the job, some of them are finding ways to bring spirtuality to the office. ProGroup President Myrna Marofsky and Georgette Bennett founder of the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding offer their perspective for navigating the often-foreign territory of religion in the corporate world. Marofsky and Bennett are authors of Religion in the Workplace: A Traveler's Guide To Navigating The Complex Landscape, written in cooperation with the Society for Human Resource Management.
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Fat Bashing: When size really does matter
Elena Centor, August 2004
ProGroup discusses the implications of statistics, and truth versus fiction in workplace perceptions of persons of size. Also considers the impacts on size bias in the workplace. |
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Celebrate Appreciate Diversity Month August 15 to September 15, 2004
August 4, 2004
ProGroup principals discuss the origin of Appreciate Diversity Month www.AppreciateDiversityMonth.org, answer some commonly asked questions and describe how individuals and organizations can get involved. |
Better Mentor
Liz Grensing-Pophal, July, 2004
ProGroup's President Myrna Marofsky, co-author of Getting Started With Mentoring: A Practical Guide to Setting Up an Inclusive Mentoring Program, explains why mentoring programs don't always work.
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Women In Business Awards
July, 2004
ProGroup's Founder and CEO Karen Stinson is honored as one of the Top 25 Changemakers in 2004 for her contributions to the diversity industry and community.
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Casting A Wider Net
Andrew Blackman, June 21, 2004
ProGroup's Karen Stinson discusses why many boardrooms still represent the final frontier in diversity, and how diversity can improve governance and business decisions.
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Job Outlook Showing Signs of Life
Anthony Limon, June, 2004
Hispanic and other minorities have an edge in the multicultural hiring economy, especially with companies operating in areas sensitive to cultural competency and responsiveness, such as healthcare, explains ProGroup's Myrna Marofsky.
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Atlantic Coast Retools Its Culture to Fit Independence
Amy Joyce, May 17, 2004
ProGroup discusses why a lot of companies are looking to do culture changes in general because their current culture is not adapting and responsive enough to the marketplace.
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Diversity
Robert Julavits, March 1, 2004
ProGroup's Karen Stinson highlights diversity trends in the financial services industry.
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Countering A Weight Crisis
Robert Grossman, March, 2004
ProGroup, which is the only diversity consultancy in the country that has included size as a diversity dimension in its training programs since 1993, contributes to this obesity cover story and the ramifications relating to health care costs, productivity, morale and potential employee discrimination. The article cites the experiences of HealthPartners Inc. which gained valuable insight from ProGroup's popular "Size: A Diversity Undiscussable" workshop that sensitizes workers and managers to size biases and reveals how overweight individuals may end up suffering unintended humiliations because employers simply don't understand or recognize their needs. Hiring managers and co-workers who assume that all overweight individuals lack self-discipline are likely making a mistake---one that can cause employers to miss out on talented workers, as research has repeatedly shown. |
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Sell Clothes Based on Their Merits? Bo-ring!
Fashion Tries Making a Spectacle of Its Sell.
Robin Givhan, Sunday, February 22, 2004
ProGroup's Myrna Marofsky joins the debate on drawing the line between fantasy and reality in the fashion world given America's growing diversity."If the fashion business continues to rely so heavily on image marketing, then the images being presented will be under increasing pressure to expand," she notes, adding "Every eight seconds
someone turns 50. Women may want to open a magazine and see a fantasy, but not a size 4, blond, blue-eyed one..." |
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ProGroup Helps Corporations Realize Business Payoff Through Diversity
Carol Ratelle Leach, January 2004
ProGroup's Karen Stinson and Myrna Marofsky say that while tolerance doesn't break any laws, it doesn't do your company any favors, either. Instead, acceptance and appreciation should be the modus operandi for how co-workers treat each other as well as customers. Read the article as a PDF. |
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Adding Depth To The Field
Laura Smith, December 2003
Many believe the field of athletic training needs to add diversity to its ranks. ProGroup's Karen Stinson discusses how to set expectations, develop a plan, measure the results, and make diversity a core organizational value that everyone can embrace. |
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Wal-Mart Sued Over 'Shopping While Black'
Elena Maria Lopez, December 16, 2003
ProGroup discusses why any time a business is accused of discriminatory practices it casts a negative shadow on them in the eyes of their employees and the communities that they serve. |
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Dallas HR Conference Explores Diversity, Bottom Line
Heidi Basantes Shipp, December 15, 2003
ProGroup provides advice for managers in its groundbreaking workshop entitled "White Men and the Diversity Puzzle: Where Do They Fit?" Read the article as a PDF. |
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The December Dilemma: As America's Workplace Diversifies Planning Celebrations Grows More Complex
December 15, 2003
ProGroup offers tips for managing seasonal celebrations in the workplace. Read the article as a PDF. |
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Avoid Holiday Pitfalls In Office Party Plans
Katherine R. Lewis, Newhouse News Service, December 7, 2003
ProGroup's Karen Stinson comments on how a well-planned holiday party can unite a workplace, while a badly executed affair risks alienating employees. |
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As Holidays Arrive, Job Sites Should Include Everyone, Minneapolis Group Says
November 24, 2003
ProGroup explains why decking the office halls with Christmas and other outward signs of the Christian holiday can pose a dilemma, given the growing religious and cultural diversity in the workplace. Read the article as a PDF. |
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Workplace Memo: Calendar Helps Businesses Make Date With Awareness
Julie Forester, November 23, 2003
Businesses from across the country are snatching up ProGroup's Honoring Differences calendar. Read the article as a PDF. |
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Retail Resuscitation; Diversity Training Ups Saks Sales
Joanne Cleaver, September 1, 2003
An in-depth look on how Saks Fifth Avenue used ProGroup's training to effectively replace a poorly performing service culture with one that's inclusive and friendly, and turn occasional shoppers into more frequent ones. |
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Whitewash? Abercrombie & Fitch Says It Isn't Racist.
Do Its Marketing & Hiring Tell A Different Story?
Jim Edwards, October 6, 2003
ProGroup's Myrna Marofsky describes why A&F may be courting disaster by not moving more aggressively on staffing issues. "If they hadn't been involved in this previous situation with the Asian community, I would give them the benefit of the doubt. You can only be naïve once and then you either don't care or you perpetrate an idea." |
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The Bottom Line; Weight At Work
Obesity Has Become a National Problem.
That Means It's Become A National Business Problem
Gwendolyn Freed, October 19, 2003
As feelings about fitness and fairness collide at work, "sizeism" is emerging as the latest diversity frontier. American Express, which recently brought in ProGroup's popular "Size: A Diversity Undiscussable" workshop speaks on the issue. Read the article as a PDF. |
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As Girths Grow, Firms do Battle With Weight Bias
Samantha Marshall, September 22, 2003
ProGroup client Saks Fifth Avenue explains how diversity training worked to make large-size customers feel more welcome in its stores. Read the article as a PDF. |
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Overweight Workers Say They're Often Overlooked.
Complain Prejudices Remain in the Workplace
Diane E. Lewis, September 21, 2003
ProGroup's Myrna Marofsky explains how size generates subtle biases as well as blatant ones. Add other biases such as race, gender, ethnicity, and age to the situation, and the issues can be magnified ten-fold. |
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A Weighty Battle in the Workplace
Brenda McCarthy, September 21, 2003
While more employers are being sued for size discrimination, obesity claims are tough to prove and tougher to win. ProGroup's Ann Johnston chimes in on the issues. |
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Business Sense Behind Diversity: Affirmative Action and Court Orders Aside, Companies Find Focusing on a Diverse Workplace Helps Them Reach New and Growing Markets
Casey Selix, July 2, 2003
It isn't compliance with government regulations that is beefing up business at ProGroup. Instead, it's the downturn in the economy. Aside from court decisions and government rules, companies are seeing a business case for recruiting and retaining women and people of color to help them reach out to new markets and compete in the global economy. Read the article as a PDF. |
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Employers Hail Ruling as Victory for Diversity
Stephanie Armour and Del Jones, June 24, 2003
ProGroup's CEO and Founder, Karen Stinson, says that the recent Supreme Court ruling on the University of Michigan's admission policies will serve to remind more companies of how important schools are in providing them with a diverse workforce. |
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