A quota by any other name will stench just as bad.
That's standard at thousands of companies, not just Sodexho.
WMNNA - White Men Need Not Apply
My company does work for the Texas Department of Transportation. Each year we must file a report that shows the number of minorities of each category we have on a particular project for July. When I told them I expected to report Hispanics under the regular category and Whites under the minority column since that is what our census now shows, they advised me that while Whites are the minority in Texas, they are not nationally, so keep the status quo.........
Same practice, different name--similar practices occurred in the first half of the 20th century when whites were hired to the exclusion of blacks, et al. Nothing ever changes, just the approach and label.
Implicit in this absurd question is the premise that the abilities, education levels and work ethic, among other factors for promotion, are identical among all of their definable groups. Furthermore, since they begin with that premise, any discrepancies in promotion rates can only be attributed to illegal discrimination.
Our "friends" in the diversity world ought to acquaint themselves with the excellent body of work created by Thomas Sowell, a brilliant economist, writer, and researcher. Sowell happens to be Black, although the quantity of melanin in his skin is irrelevant to me. But, that's just me.
Sowell's thoroughly researched masterpeice, Race and Culture makes a compelling case that all men (and women) are not equal. He provides ample evidence that (primarily cultural) differences manifest themselves in ways that cause outcomes to be different among racial and ethnic groups.
My observations seem to confirm Sowell's. Pick any high school in the country with even a moderate racial and ethnic mix and then try to guess who will be the stars of the basketball team, who will be the Merit Scholars, and who will be the ones getting scholarships for playing the violin. Pick the name of a cornerback in the NFL out of a hat and try to guess what color he is. Hint--if you pick one color, you have a 100% chance of being correct. If you pick a different color, you have a 100% chance of being wrong. And, when the percentage is at or near 100, "chance" isn't the right word.
Complete illegal, unconstitutional, racist and unfair. This is what "diversity" is really about.
I didn't even bother returning their calls for the setting up of a second interview.
I wasn't surprised when I read in 1997 that Marriot made Ebony's Best Companies for Black Employees list.
I Still won't stay at one.
Government agencies like the US Patent and Trademark Office do this, too.
Sodexho = French-owned
These clowns took over concessions (from a well-liked local company) at Mountaineer Field (WVU).
As expected, prices went way up and service decreased in proportion.
This isn't nearly as bad as it seems.
The question is basically demanding promotion quotas.
The officer's answer is a long-winded of saying that they DON'T have promotion quotas, and instead have a system that makes sure managers TRY to find and promote minority and women managers, but doesn't assure that they'll succeed in doing so. Believe me, whatever their bonus system is, quantitative performance measures are going to be much more heavily weighted than the diversity-of-promotion measures. Any senior manager who promotes an incompentent minority into management is going to net lose bonus, not gain bonus, when that incompetent screws things up. The incentive is to find COMPETENT minority managers.
When well-adminsitered in the private sector, what these policies really do is to force managers to get outside their comfort zone -- to be aggressive in looking for talent outside of where you may usually expect to find it. That's pretty commendable.
The real problem is when these policies come into the public sector -- where there's little or no bottom-line component in performance reviews, and affirmative action can become an end in itself rather than a means to an end of making sure that qualified talent isn't overlooked or uncoscious biases aren't perpetuated.