Employment Research

NAMIC Employment Survey

NAMIC’s biennial survey, “A Look Toward Advancement: Multi-ethnic Employment in Telecommunications,” provides a baseline of statistics about the state of multi-ethnic diversity in our industry. The initial study in 1999 by the Surveys Unlimited division of Horowitz Associates, updated in 2002, was the first comprehensive research study to take an in-depth look at multi-ethnic diversity in the communications industry. In 2004, NAMIC launched a partnership with DiversityInc, the premier diversity publication, to assess diverse practices in four key areas: human capital; CEO commitment; corporate communications; and supplier diversity.

These benchmarks have been used to assess existing and potential initiatives and support strategic diversity endeavors as demographics shift and our business becomes increasingly global. One key outgrowth of that seminal work was the successful launch in 2001 of the NAMIC Executive Leadership Development Program and the Leadership Seminar for managers and supervisors in partnership with UCLA’s Anderson School of Management. NAMIC also has added corporate diversity and inclusion and professional development tracks to its annual NAMIC conference curriculum.

DiversityInc Benchmarking will independently administer the 2008 NAMIC survey, tabulate the results, analyze trends since the 2006 survey and enable companies to benchmark their diversity efforts against similar firms among the DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity as well as others in the cable industry. DiversityInc Benchmarking also will deploy a survey to NAMIC members to measure their attitudes and perceptions about diversity.

With the industry’s paradigm shifting toward improved time management and efficiency, Women in Cable Telecommunications and the National Association for Multi-ethnicity in Communications have aligned to streamline the research survey process for WICT’s PAR Initiative and NAMIC’s Multi-ethnic Employment in Telecommunications surveys. The comprehensive research conducted by both organizations has had an undeniable impact on the cable industry, helping companies attract and retain the best possible talent by highlighting progressive business practices. NAMIC and WICT will distribute separate surveys in 2008, but have simplified the data-collection process for reporting basic employee demographic information common to both surveys by presenting the questions in a similar format.

1999

A Look Towards Advancement: Minority Employment in Cable – Part I (PDF)

2002

A Look Towards Advancement: Minority Employment in Cable – Part II (PDF)

2004

A Look Toward Advancement: Multi-ethnic Employment in Communications (PDF)

2006

A Look Toward Advancement: Multi-ethnic Employment in Telecommunications (PDF)

2006 Executive Summary

2008

Streamlining the Workforce Watch - Multichannel News (PDF)

CableFAX Daily (PDF)

Cable360NET (PDF)

TV Week (PDF)