Take Company Values from Beliefs to Best Practices

11/19/24 • 48 min

Corporate policies serve as a tangible manifestation of a business's core values and ethical standards, and these policies can help to cultivate a cohesive organizational culture that aligns with those values and standards. For instance, transparent communication policies can build trust within the workforce, encouraging open dialogue and collaborative problem solving. Company policies related to political and economic changes can highlight a company’s core values as well.

Join Rich John, adjunct professor at Cornell Law School, as he talks about how a company’s rules and the policies they implement have a direct connection to what they value. Professor John will also look at past precedent and discuss why more and more companies are defining their political stances in their employee handbooks.

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Fair-Chance Hiring: How HR Innovation Is Creating Job Pathways for Justice-Impacted People

Individuals with criminal records often struggle to secure employment due to discrimination, compounded by gaps in work experience, education, skill development and career capital. Employers and job seekers need new tools to replace decades-old hiring heuristics that are both inefficient and inequitable.
Join us for an insightful conversation on enhancing HR hiring practices for marginalized workers, particularly those with criminal records. Christine Lovely, vice president and chief human resources officer at Cornell, Matt Saleh, Jodi Anderson Jr. and host Timothy McNutt from ILR School’s Criminal Justice and Employment Initiative, explore inclusive hiring, employment barriers and strategies to help employers view applicants beyond the lenses of risk and liability.

What You'll Learn

The results of employer research conducted in collaboration with Cornell's Brooks School of Public Policy and Cornell Tech
Why factors such as credentials earned during incarceration strongly predict employment success
Why New York state is an ideal locale for introducing private-sector practices that increase employment for justice-impacted people

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Immigration Reform in 2025: What Is Possible?

Many people disagree on solutions for the challenges in the U.S. immigration system.

While each branch of government continues to arrive at an impasse, employers face labor shortages. The demographics of an aging population and declining birth rates are indisputable. More people worldwide are fleeing societal collapses, climate change and persecution. And over 10 million people lack legal immigration status in the United States, with immigration courts facing a backlog of over 3 million deportation cases.
Join Cornell Law School professor Stephen Yale-Loehr and Distinguished Visiting Immigration Scholars Amy Nice, Charles Kamasaki, Marielena Hincapié, Randel Johnson and Theresa Cardinal Brown as they discuss what immigration laws and policies might change post-election and next year.

What You'll Learn

How the current cohort of immigrants differs from those of the past
What might be in store for DACA and other immigration issues
Three targeted immigration reforms that most Americans can agree on: border management and asylum policy, worker programs and DREAMer protections
What you can do to influence immigration policy

The Cornell Keynotes podcast is brought to you by eCornell, which offers more than 200 online certificate programs to help professionals advance their careers and organizations. Learn more in our Immigration Law certificate program co-authored by Stephen Yale-Loehr.

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