Employee Resource Groups
Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) are voluntary, employee-led groups that foster a diverse, inclusive workplace aligned with organizational mission, values, goals, business practices, and objectives. Other benefits include the development of future leaders, increased employee engagement, and expanded marketplace reach.
Results
Busting Myths About ERGs, One Resource At A Time (Blog Post)
We asked ERLI’s lead architect, Candice Morgan, to share some key insights about common misperceptions ERG leaders often face, particularly in the early stages of establishing a new group.
Chevron Corporation – The Chevron Way: Engineering Opportunities for Women (Practices)
Chevron’s initiative, The Chevron Way: Engineering Opportunities for Women, is designed to strengthen the organization by increasing the company’s focus on people, in particular by attracting, retaining, developing, and advancing […]
Procter & Gamble – Everyone Valued, Everyone Included, Everyone Performing at Their Peak™ (Practices)
Learn about Procter & Gamble's (P&G) global initiative, Everyone Valued, Everyone Included, Everyone Performing at Their Peak™
Moss Adams LLP – Forum W: Increasing Opportunities for Women in Public Accounting (Practices)
By developing a women's network, Moss Adams achieved many key objectives for their women employees.
Enbridge Inc. – FEMINEN: FEMales IN ENgineering Employee Resource Group (Practices)
Learn how Enbridge's women's employee resource group helped its women employees.
CVS Caremark Corporation – Supporting the Diversity Mission Through Colleague Resource Groups (Practices)
Learn how CVS makes diversity a process of their entire business.
Chevron Australia – PRIDE: LGBT Inclusion, Intersectionality, and Collaborative Partnerships (Practices)
PRIDE, Chevron’s LGBT employee network, was developed as a grassroots employee effort. The group has evolved over its more than 20-year history to collaborate with other internal and external partners […]
Kimberly-Clark Corporation – Unleash Your Power: Strengthening the Business With Women Leaders (Practices)
Kimberly-Clark’s Unleash Your Power: Strengthening the Business With Women Leaders is a global, enterprise-wide initiative to address Kimberly-Clark’s need to look, think, and behave like the people who use and […]
The Chubb Corporation – The Working Parents Network: Embracing Diversity Across the Caretaking Spectrum (Practices)
Learn about Chubb's work-life effectiveness through its ERG for parents.
Nestlé – International Dual Career Network (Practices)
What began as a company initiative has become a non-profit aimed at creating opportunities for employees at several organizations.
BNY Mellon – Fostering Global Inclusion and Multiculturalism (Practices)
To attract and retain diverse talent, the company bolstered support for its employee resource groups.
Alcoa Inc. – Building Opportunities for Women in a “Hard Hat” Company (Practices)
In the midst of hard economic times, Alcoa’s initiative Building Opportunities for Women in a “Hard Hat” Company is increasing women’s representation in leadership roles and promoting gender inclusion in a male-dominated […]
The Coca-Cola Company – Global Women’s Initiative: Women as the Real Drivers of the 21st Century (Practices)
The Coca-Cola Company’s Global Women’s Initiative: Women as the Real Drivers of the 21st Century seeks to advance women internally and economically empower women externally. Initiated and driven by the […]
Unilever – Global Reach With Local Roots: Creating a Gender-Balanced Workforce in Different Cultural Contexts (Practices)
Unilever’s initiative, Global Reach With Local Roots: Creating a Gender-Balanced Workforce in Different Cultural Contexts, accelerates the advancement of high-potential women across different regions and leverages the company’s strong foundation […]
Cisco Systems, Inc. – Developing Women: Cisco’s Executive Shadowing Program (Practices)
Cisco’s Executive Shadowing program began in 2009 as a grassroots effort to develop women employees by pairing Cisco executives with talented women across business functions. Unlike many diversity and inclusion […]
GE Capital EMEA – Building a Pipeline of Women: Investing Within, Connecting Out (Practices)
GE’s diversity and inclusion strategy is centered on the notion that diversity is not solely a human resources issue—it is a business issue. Building upon GE’s long history of inclusion, […]
HCL Technologies – Employees First: A Philosophy for Workplace Transformation (Practices)
HCL Technologies (HCLT), a leading global IT services company headquartered in India, is a client-driven business. As such, it is imperative for the company to optimize and enhance employee-customer relationships. […]
Whirlpool Corporation – PRIDE: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Allied Inclusion (Practices)
Whirlpool Corporation strives to create an internal workplace culture that allows and encourages its personnel to bring their full selves to work. This means an open, supportive, and inclusive environment […]
Hewlett-Packard Company – Reciprocal Mentoring with PRIDE (Practices)
Hewlett-Packard (HP) has a long history supporting the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community. In fact, it was the first company to start an employee resource group specifically for […]
Ford Motor Company – GLOBE: Fostering LGBT Inclusion, Valuing Diversity, and Empowering Authenticity (Practices)
Workplace diversity and including lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) employees is a key component of Ford’s business strategy and work culture. Given its importance, diversity at Ford is operationalized […]