Diversity Employment at IBM Proposal

Diversity at IBM

Selection of Corporation to Research

Diversity, Inc. recognizes corporations with awards for workplace diversity, where diversity is defined by a number of characteristics describing employment for all demographics not included in the group with the highest absolute employment and highest earnings (DiversityInc, 2011a). The fifty top companies for employment, earnings, retention and seniority among other categories are compared across demographic characteristics like race and ethnicity; sex and gender; age; disability and educational background, among others. This proposal selects IBM as case study because of the historical leadership that firm has shown implementing equal opportunity in employment, as supported by a review of the literature (below). IBM promotes its hiring, promotion and retention diversity on its corporate Web site (IBM, 2011) and the academic and business literature seems to support that assertion.

Building Research Methodology from Precedent

DiversityInc's Web page "Methodology" describes their...
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