by Race in the Workplace special correspondent Erica

Employee Relations Part 1 - Evil HR Lady
Of a three part series. [2] [3] The scenario: A high-performing manager walks into your office and tells you she wants to put a formal warning in a new, high-performing employee’s file. The employee called out for two days with sick children and didn’t keep in contact with the office. The question: How do you handle the manager?

Part I: One Woman’s Story of Racism & Sexism on Wall Street - DiversityInc
“Kimberley Copeland, a talented, bright, young black woman, was dazzled when she received a job offer on the revenue-generating side of one of Wall Street’s most prestigious investment banks. But her excitement soon turned to humiliation and anger as she was subjected to racist and sexist intimidation and harassment.” Parts 2 and 3 are subscription only, but you get lots more for free if you subscribe to the podcast.

Are you an unconscious bigot? - Leadership Turn
“How could someone who had recruited, hired, built, and retained a multi-ethnic group composed of both gay and straight, and including a variety of religions, be a bigot? How could that diverse a team be bigoted? And how in the world would it be noticeable to an outsider (me)?”

Workplace Bullying Survey: 37% of American Workers are Targets - Bob Sutton’s Work Matters
Bob Sutton discusses what he finds striking in a Workplace Bullying Institute survey. Men bully more than women and women are targeted more than men. A lot of targets leave their jobs as a result. A whole lot of bullies are bosses targeting their employees.

Thanks for the Interview, But… - BusinessWeek
“Here’s how to take yourself out of the running for a job that you don’t feel is right for you. It’s not presumptuous—it’s considerate.”

Globalization, Equality and Nondiscrimination: An Interdisciplinary Perspective from the U.S. On Diversity Programming by Susan Bisom-Rapp - Social Science Research Network
From the abstract: “From an American perspective, the activities in Europe, especially its nascent workplace diversity movement, are notable, and provide an opportunity to assess the U.S. experience. This essay thus describes efforts in Europe to combat discrimination at the organizational level, and considers the situation in the U.S., where organizations themselves have to an extent determined the terms of legal compliance with antidiscrimination law through the adoption of programs and policies just starting to appear in Europe. In light of recent U.S. studies on diversity program efficacy, the essay concludes with some cautionary words about the lessons Europeans might draw from the U.S.” (via Workplace Prof Blog)

Keywords of the Rich & Famous - FastCompany.com
“You can be the single most talented integrated-logistics manager but if you don’t have those words in your résumé you will get skipped over.”

auto body shop settles harrassment suit - angry asian man
“According to the suit against Monterey Collision Frame and Auto Body, a technician of Chinese and Italian ancestry was subjected to repeated racial and sexual harassment while he worked at the shop, ‘including mimicking martial arts movements and mockingly calling him ‘Bruce Lee.””

Offering up her experiences - JS Online
“[Zenja Glass’] latest self-published book discloses ‘unfair hiring practices’ she has observed during her 16 years in corporate staffing. Race and ethnicity are Reason 3 in ‘25 Reasons Why They Won’t Hire You!’” (Get the book. It’s $12.50.)

Recommended Reading is a weekly feature where we link to some of our favorite workplace-related blog posts and articles. If you would like to suggest a link to Erica, please email [email protected]