Samuel J. Palmisano

Over the past two years, I have interviewed more than 50 IBM employees—ranging from midlevel managers all the way up to Gerstner and Palmisano—about the task force effort and spent a great deal of time with Ted Childs, IBM’s vice president of Global Workforce Diversity and Gerstner’s primary partner in guiding this change process. What they described was a significant philosophical shift—from

MANAGING WORKFORCE DIVERSITY AT IBM: A GLOBAL HR TOPIC THAT HAS ARRIVED J. T. (Ted) Childs Jr. To be successful, global companies must continue to look toward the future, and CEOs, senior line and HR management, and diversity leaders play a key role in that process. Workforce diversity cannot be delegated; it must be a partnership. Although the HR team plays the key staff role, total delegation from the top, without active involvement, is a recipe for failure. IBM considers diversity a business

such as Sam Palmisano, Larry Ellison, Randy MacDonald, and Thomas Watson. Different leadership style among CEO help IBM

he could unknowingly make a decision about reconstruction where its effects were so blatantly derogatory to the cause he was trying to help. 	The controversy began when he was merely running for office. Hayes was running against Democrat Samuel J. Tilden. When the ballots were tallied in 1876, Hayes clearly lost the popular vote, and had lost the electoral vote 184 to 165 . However, twenty votes

Kyera Dancy Mr.Stanley American History 9 January 2017 Rutherford B. Hayes Who is Rutherford B. Hayes? What did he do while in office? How well did he work with congress? How well did he work with foreign countries? How well did he help the American people? Did he keep the economy ordered and organized? Hayes was the 19th President of the United States, he only served one term as president from 1877 to 1881. He was involved in the ending of the reconstruction, the Dawes Act, The Great Railroad

One chilly December morning in 1868, William “Boss” Tweed smiled calmly as he lied to an entire court during a huge publicised trial Boisterous and humorous, he endeared himself to the jury members and escaped reproach. This trial was to address the huge issue of voting fraud that plagued New York. The Democratic party, of which Tweed was a powerful member, illegally counted Republican votes and doctored Democratic votes to outnumbered them. A letter printed in the paper, supposedly from Sam Tilden

Equality and freedom between blacks and whites were very different, causing problems to breakout. The Reconstruction Era went on from 1863 to 1877. It was taken place in the South, it was the greatest problem that still remained after the Civil War and had to be solved. In general, the changes made after the Civil War did not help African-Americans move closer to achieving the American Dream due to the economic, political and social problems that they faced due to the reconstruction. The problems

The Tweed Ring Scandal The Tweed Ring scandal in New York began with William "Boss" Tweed. William is remembered for patronizing of his Tammany Hall political machine. He used it to gain massive sums of money during the Reconstruction. It was unfair, disguised, and very illegal. All of the cash he made was dirty and not legal, yet he managed to get away with this scheme from 1856 all the way until 1873. William was born in 1823, and by the time he was twenty-eight years old, he was already

During the Progressive Era, many people were beginning to realize the effects of the Gilded Age, which left almost the whole nation in poverty, so some people called muckrakers rose to the challenge to help resolve the poverty problem. Among the muckrakers, Thomas Nast effectively helped try to stop a thief in office, who was secretly stealing from the country. Thomas Nast 's birthplace was Landau, Germany, and his birthdate is September 27, 1840. In 1846, he and his family immigrated to New

the Ku Klux Klan or KKK (Ku Klux Klan). The group intimidated and threatened African-Americans to ensure that they would not vote. Along with voting, the U.S. presidential election was another conflict leading up to the Compromise of 1877. Democrat Samuel J. Tilden, and Republican Rutherford B. Hayes were both candidates. The candidates began to have tensions after Hayes sent federal troops to South Carolina, Louisiana, and Florida to enforce laws containing to race. The states were originally Democratically