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Paper presented during the AOM 2017 Session on Ethical Leadership and Employee Issues. http://my.aom.org/Program2017/SessionDetails.aspx?sid=19097

Email me with questions, comments or feedback at: anthonychood@uab.edu.

Authors:

• Daniel G. Bachrach https://culverhouse.ua.edu/directory/profile/dbachrac
• Pavlos Vlachos http://www.alba.edu.gr/faculty-research/about-alba-faculty/core-faculty/pavlos-vlachos/
• Fred Morgeson https://broad.msu.edu/facultystaff/morgeson/
• Anthony C. Hood https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthonychood

Notes/Links:

• https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/a/2015/we-re-committing-to-a-more-diverse-twitter.html
• https://medium.com/tech-diversity-files/thought-on-diversity-part-2-why-diversity-is-difficult-3dfd552fa1f7
• • “For some at Twitter, diversity is an obstruction to avoid,” Miley wrote. “With my departure, Twitter no longer has any managers, directors, or VP’s of color in engineering or product management. From this position, Twitter may find it difficult to make the changes to culture and product.”
• https://techcrunch.com/2015/11/03/twitter-engineering-manager-leslie-miley-leaves-company-because-of-diversity-issues/
• • “We’re committed to making substantive progress in making Twitter more diverse and inclusive,” a Twitter spokesperson said. “This commitment includes the expansion of our inclusion and diversity programs, diversity recruiting, employee development, and resource group-led initiatives. Beyond just disclosing our workforce representation statistics, we have also publicly disclosed our representation goals for women and under-represented minorities for 2016, making us the largest tech company to put hard numbers around its diversity commitment.”
• http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2015/11/06/454949422/a-q-a-with-lesley-miley-the-black-twitter-engineer-who-left-over-diversity-probl
• • “There’s a document at Twitter that lists the schools that Twitter wants to recruit from. This document was penned by Alex Roetter, the Senior VP of engineering. He had his other directors contribute to it, modify it and refine it. It listed Cal, Stanford, CMU, Waterloo, MIT, typical schools like that. Never listed any state schools. Never listed any HBCUs. It listed certain companies and excluded certain companies. It excluded certain titles.”
  • “We’re committed to making substantive progress in making Twitter more diverse and inclusive. This commitment includes the expansion of our inclusion and diversity programs, diversity recruiting, employee development, and resource group-led initiatives. Beyond just disclosing our workforce representation statistics, we have also publicly disclosed our representation goals for women and underrepresented minorities for 2016, making us the largest tech company to put hard numbers around its diversity commitment.”
  • “After receiving Twitter’s statement, we asked if the company had any comment about the document Miley says listed schools from which Twitter recruits. We have not received any response to that request, but will update this post if we hear back.”

• https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2017/2/19/reflecting-on-one-very-strange-year-at-uber
• http://mashable.com/2017/02/19/susan-fowler-sexism-uber/#wieRS92fnkq1
• • Female representation at Uber has dropped from 25% to 6%
• http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/uber-hires-eric-holder-investigate-sexual-harassment-claims-n723426
• https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2017/02/21/uber-sexism-charges-sound-wake-up-call-silicon-valley/98219746/

• https://www.wired.com/2017/03/hey-tech-giants-action-diversity-not-just-reports/
• https://www.cebglobal.com/talentdaily/silicon-valley-employers-shift-focus-of-diversity-reports/