08/06/2020

How HR Professionals Can Help Staff Talk Race Relations at Work

Different ethnicities view discrimination and opportunity from very different angles

George Floyd’s death earlier this year has sparked a new focus on race relations in all parts of the nation, including workplaces. The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), as part of its Together Forward @ Work initiative, is looking at race relations in the workplace and how HR professionals can help improve diversity and inclusion in workplaces.

“2020 has brought no shortage of obstacles that—beyond affecting all Americans personally—present unique challenges to our workforces and our places of work,” said SHRM President and CEO Johnny C. Taylor, Jr., SHRM-SCP. “As much as we’d like to think difficult conversations shouldn’t be—and traditional thinking was they shouldn’t be—brought to work, that’s just not the way it happens anymore.”

Taylor says the goal of Together Forward @ Work is “a call to action for the business community to drive racial inequity from the workplace.” One of the first outputs from this campaign is a new report, “Journey to Equity and Inclusion,” that provides research on employees’ and HR professionals’ views on race and inequity in the workplace. The report shows that perceptions of workplace culture and equity varied greatly based on race.

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