22 Friday, July 20, 1979
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Committee Working to End Bias in Corporations' Hiring of Jews
tive level, and to eliminate
'the remnants of bias" in
An advisory board of the executive suite, with
American industry leaders recognition of ability as the
has been established to prime criterion for hiring
make Jews aware that, in and advancement, accord-
most corporations, "They ing to the American Jewish
have the same opportunity Committee.
for advancement as anyone
The advisory board will
else" at the executive level, help the AJCommittee and
and to eliminate "the rem- the Federation Employ-
nants of bias" in the execu- ment and Guidance Service
(FEGS) to help bring more
Jews into executive-posts in
corporations, according to
Richard Maass, AJCommit-
tee president, and William
Ellinghaus, president of the
American Telephone and
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Telegraph Co. The advisory
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ing the past five years to
open executive jobs for Jews
in its affiliated companies,
is advisory board chairman.
Maass said the AJ-
Committee had started
research into discrimina-
tion against Jews in the
mid-1950s, adding that
since then, through
cooperative efforts with
many major corpora-
tions, "substantial im-
provement has been re-
corded in the hiring and
promotion of Jews." He
said that in 1975, the AJ-
Committee and the FEGS
set up the task force after
finding that "exclusion
from major areas of
American industry still
blocked the way for Jews
seeking access to corpo-
rate careers and in their
upward mobility."
able." But, he said, there are
still cases where companies
do not hire, Jews and the
advisory board "will try to
establish a dialogue" with
officers of such companies.
Maass said AT&T was
outstanding in carrying
out non-discriminatory
policies throughout the
nationwide system, dec-
laring the corporation
had "sensitized and
oriented" personnel de-
partments "and particu-
larly their recruiters" to
the company's non-
discriminatory policy
"and instructed them to
use recruitment sources
on campuses frequented
by Jews."
Maass said changes "on
all levels of management"
have occurred, adding that
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Maass said the task force cluding a unit president,
had found that "the results who are Jewish, were ap-
of prejudice still show viv- pointed during the past two
idly at top management years "and numerous mid-
levels in numerous com- dle management positions
panies" and that, to correct have been filled by Jews."
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recruiting Jewish person-
of employees.
Ellinghaus lauded the nel. Such cooperative efforts
AJCommittee for its 20- in Pennsylvania, dating
year effort to combat dis- back to 1974, have led to a
crimination by corporations large increase in the entry
in the hiring and promotion of Jews into executive posi-
of Jews and other minority tions, Maass said.
He said similar results
group members. He said
there was a time, "not terri- have been achieved within
bly long ago," when the the past three years
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chapter and Pacific Tele-
phone and Telegraph Co.,
with a substantial increase
in recruitment of Jewish
management trainees dur-
ing the past two years. He
said chapters in Atlanta,
Baltimore, Cleveland, De-
nver, Detroit and Westches-
ter, N.Y. have modeled local
efforts after the New York
executive suite program
and have successfully
brought together personnel
directors of AT&T offices
with local branches of
FEGS.
Other members of the
advisory board are Ross
Barzelay, president of Gen-
eral Foods; Henry A. Cor-
rea, president of ACF In-
dustries; Val B. Diehl,
president of Nabisco; Fran-
cis J. Dunleavy, vice chair-
man of the board of Interna-
tional Telephone Co.; Coy
Ecklund, president of
Equitable Life Assurance
Society; J. Peter Grace,
president of W. R. Grace and
Co.; John Hannon,
president of Bankers Trust;
and Charles Luce, chair-
man of the board of Consoli-
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