[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 19 (Thursday, February 13, 1997)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E282-E283]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  COMMENDING WESLEY, BROWN & BARTLE'S FINDINGS ON MINORITY EMPLOYMENT 
                               PRACTICES

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                        HON. CAROLYN B. MALONEY

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                      Thursday, February 13, 1997

  Mrs. MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, despite the heated controversy 
and, at times, unfortunate rhetoric surrounding the plight of women and 
minorities who must strive for career advancement, I am pleased to 
report that

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Wesley, Brown and Bartle finds America's leading corporations continue 
to maintain diversity employment practices.
  Almost 2 in every 3 Fortune 100 companies (62 percent) responding to 
a survey by Wesley, Brown and Bartle Company, Inc. have hiring programs 
dedicated to diversity and 15 percent of them tie portions of executive 
compensation to achieving diversity leadership goals. A year ago, when 
WB and B first surveyed these companies, 64 percent said they 
maintained such programs and 17 percent said they included compensation 
incentives. These percentages were almost identical to the survey 
results of a year ago, despite the political assault on affirmative 
action programs in the intervening months.
  WB&B founder Wes Poriotis notes the influence of a widely circulated 
study by the Hudson Institute on the effects of the marketplace to 
changing demographics in the United States. The study concluded that in 
the near future, companies with workforces that mirror the demography 
of their customers will prevail over competitors whose workforces do 
not. In short, diversity hiring is good business.
  Wesley, Brown & Bartle is the oldest minority-partnered international 
search firm. It provides senior and middle management executive 
recruitment for major corporations and Federal agencies. Their 
innovative systems for identifying and maintaining contact with 
managers and professionals have been utilized by many of the Nation's 
leading corporations, including AT and T, DuPont, Northrop Grumman, The 
Prudential, Toy's R US, and Union Pacific.
  Wesley, Brown and Bartle is to be commended for having been in the 
forefront of advancing quality executives from the ranks of the 
Nation's women and minorities for almost a quarter of a century. I 
salute this firm in my district and the truly inspirational results of 
their quarter-century of significant and innovative achievement.

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