Diversity in the Workplace: Signs of Change, but a... -
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Published on: 3/16/2006
Last Visited: 5/3/2006
A few years after Ray Hood joined Denny's in 1995 as chief diversity officer, she was asked to speak at a seminar on diversity.During the Q&A session, someone asked Hood how much Denny's spent on diversity."I started to give them my line item budget for the diversity department, then I thought about training and I caught myself," explains Hood.
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That was then and this is now, says Hood, who points out that Denny's still tracks its image quarterly in the Hispanic, general and, in particular, the African-American communities."When we started tracking in 1996, nearly half of all African Americans had a negative image of Denny's and associated us with discrimination," says Hood.
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The impressive numbers of minorities and women in management and operations have been maintained since 1998, says Hood, who notes that she was the first person in the country to hold the position of corporate diversity officer.
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Hood says Denny's plans to keep doing what it's doing.