{"id":48029,"date":"2021-10-06T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T16:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/?p=48029"},"modified":"2023-10-18T13:15:02","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T17:15:02","slug":"celebrating-our-people-global-diversity-awareness-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samsung-newsroom-production.barbariangroup.com\/us\/celebrating-people-global-diversity-awareness-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Our People: Global Diversity Awareness Month"},"content":{"rendered":"

With thousands of employees dispersed throughout the United States, Samsung Electronics America represents a diverse workforce coming together to showcase innovation. While recognizing employees occurs on a daily basis in our workplace culture, Global Diversity Awareness Month provides the opportunity to celebrate the multitude of heritage, backgrounds and life experiences of our people throughout October.<\/p>\n

At Samsung, we are striving to cultivate an inclusive workspace that promotes diverse cultures and perspectives. \u201cAs part of our D&I journey, our employees are creating communities sharing their diverse stories helping us foster a culture of inclusion,\u201d said Tami DeWeese, Head of Diversity & Inclusion for Samsung Electronics America<\/strong>. \u201cEach employee holds unique life experiences which shape their perspective and lens contributing to robust dialogue in our workplace. During Global Diversity Awareness Month, we want to highlight our people. We are Samsung Strong and creating a better future because of the diversity of our people.\u201d<\/p>\n

In our continued effort to encourage employees to be themselves while building a better tomorrow, we asked employees at Samsung Electronics America to participate in a three-part series highlighting what diversity and inclusion mean to them both in the workforce and beyond. Here\u2019s what they had to say:<\/p>\n

\u201cTo me, diversity in the workplace and in life means that people from all walks of life interact in enriching yet sometimes challenging ways. Each unique individual has a combination of life experiences, personality and beliefs which shape their own perspective, approach to life and world view. Through valuing and exploring our differences we form stronger, more supportive teams.\u201d \u2013 Randell Christopher<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cD&I is the celebration and complete embracing of what makes us different and unique.\u00a0 It\u2019s also utilizing our employees\u2019 different backgrounds and perspectives to innovate, build effective teams and achieve common goals. \u00a0Samsung has made some great strides recently in the D&I space by fostering new ERGs, and taking a stance on social diversity issues such as Stop Asian Hate, Black Lives Matter and others.\u00a0 Let\u2019s continue our efforts to make a meaningful impact in this space for our employees and our communities.\u201d \u2013Cynthia Bradt<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cA diverse and inclusive environment to me is where not only many races, nationalities, gender and sexual orientations are present and working together, but the perspectives from each and every member is equally sought and valued.\u00a0 In this environment every member feels that they are fully involved, empowered, trusted and supported.\u00a0 I strongly believe that in the current global workplace, with continuous rapid technological and social change, a diverse and inclusive environment creates tremendous value.\u00a0 This is the best way for organizations to achieve continued growth and success.\u201d \u2013 Srinivasan Sundararajan<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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\u201cFor me, diversity in the workplace is an exemplary action of the organization to reflect a diverse talent pool.\u00a0It\u2019s the true essence and foundational culture of an organization taking the initiative to reflect the realities of what they, and their employees see around them each and every day.\u00a0My personal experience has been diversity is always defaulted to ethnicity when in reality, there\u2019s so many different forms that diversity can take.\u00a0 Exclusion of groups outside of ethnicity has been a long-standing issue in corporate culture and it\u2019s imperative that we change this dynamic \u2013 there\u2019s so much more to us and them.\u00a0 This is why representation matters. Inclusion in the workplace is enabling and empowering this diverse group to grow and build within the organization.\u00a0 Setting up the pathway and providing the tools for these individuals to succeed.\u00a0 In order to do this successfully, an organization must mobilize and create opportunities to develop and enhance their professional skills not just for the short term but for the long term.\u201d \u2013<\/strong>Yessenia Morales<\/strong><\/p>\n

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With this opportunity to highlight Samsung\u2019s people, we are both humbled and honored to have been recognized for the progress toward a diverse and inclusive workforce. In 2020, Samsung Electronics America was recognized by Forbes USA as \u201cThe Best Employers for Diversity,\u201d and in 2021 as \u201cBest Places to Work for LGBTQ Equality\u201d by The Human Rights Campaign Corporate Equality Index. As we acknowledge all we have accomplished, we are eager to continue setting new goals that pave the path toward a better future for all, beginning with our people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With thousands of employees dispersed throughout the United States, Samsung Electronics America represents a diverse workforce coming together to showcase innovation. While recognizing employees occurs on a daily basis in our workplace culture, Global Diversity Awareness Month provides the opportunity to celebrate the multitude of heritage, backgrounds and life experiences of our people throughout October. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":48040,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29719,17571],"tags":[29654,289,24213,890],"blue-badge":[],"class_list":["post-48029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-corporate","category-corporate-workforce","tag-employee-resource-group-erg","tag-employees","tag-life-at-samsung","tag-samsung-culture"],"acf":{"turn_off_retargeting":false},"fimg_mobile_url":"https:\/\/img.us.news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/06123714\/Newsroom-Card.png","fimg_url":"https:\/\/img.us.news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/06123714\/Newsroom-Card.png","primary_category":{"term_id":29719,"name":"Corporate","slug":"corporate","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":29719,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1026,"filter":"raw","term_link":"https:\/\/samsung-newsroom-production.barbariangroup.com\/us\/category\/corporate\/","term_path":"corporate"},"badge":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/samsung-newsroom-production.barbariangroup.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/samsung-newsroom-production.barbariangroup.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/samsung-newsroom-production.barbariangroup.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samsung-newsroom-production.barbariangroup.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samsung-newsroom-production.barbariangroup.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/samsung-newsroom-production.barbariangroup.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samsung-newsroom-production.barbariangroup.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/samsung-newsroom-production.barbariangroup.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samsung-newsroom-production.barbariangroup.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samsung-newsroom-production.barbariangroup.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48029"},{"taxonomy":"blue-badge","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samsung-newsroom-production.barbariangroup.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blue-badge?post=48029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}