Employee resource groups are more than “food, fun, and flags”
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on December 13, 2022
The Power of Employee Resource Groups: How People Create Authentic Change
by Farzana Nayani, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2022
In 1964, in the aftermath of race riots in Rochester, New York, Joseph Wilson, the CEO who transformed the Haloid Photographic Company into Xerox, invited Black employees to come together to address and remedy racial discrimination within the company. This group evolved into the National Black Employees Caucus, the first employee resource group (ERG). A half-century later, ERGs are a ubiquitous feature of the corporate landscape.
“ERGs have formed within the workplace to support and represent . . .
