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A Network of Networks
HP’s employee groups were heavily localized and driven by grassroots actors, resulting in a wide range of organizations throughout the company. This table, printed in a U.S. publication, helped employ ...
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Black Employees Forum
The Black Employees Forum was HP’s oldest resource group, with roots dating back to the 1970s — long before resource groups were formally organized or empowered. By 1995, when John Blue (left) and Art ...
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Black Employees Reach Out
After HP employee groups received formal charters, it was much easier for them to articulate formal platforms and explain their missions to HP employees. This pamphlet from the Bay Area Black Employee ...
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Breaking the Inequality Loop
In 1968, HP’s diversity efforts underwent a dramatic shift when the company moved from a policy of nondiscrimination to actively working to improve minority representation at HP. To help explain the e ...
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Creating an Opportunity Loop
HP’s educational and employment initiatives to improve equality sometimes reinforced one other. In 1975, Howard University engineering student Ernest Priestly began working at Hewlett-Packard the summ ...
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Disability Outreach
In the 1970s, HP expanded its affirmative action programs to include more underrepresented groups. These efforts included proactive outreach to people with disabilities years before the passage of the ...
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Education Efforts: Diversity Training
Many of HP’s diversity efforts were well ahead of their time. In 1975, the company produced a new video to help employees understand not just the obvious injustices of conscious discrimination, but th ...
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Emily Duncan: HP Culture & Diversity
Emily Duncan worked at Hewlett-Packard from 1985–2007 in various positions related to diversity, including vice president, culture & diversity for 10 years. During her time with HP, Duncan led diversi ...
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Employee Networks: A How-To Guide
HP published this insert offering guidance to employees who wanted to start new employee groups in a 1995 issue of its employee newsletter, Measure. The same issue highlighted the accomplishments of e ...
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Employee Resource Groups
In the 1990s HP CEO Lew Platt oversaw a formal chartering process for HP’s working groups for minority and women employees. Chartered groups gained access to email, conference rooms, the HP logo and s ...