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Nike Reviewing HR Operations, Policies Amid Workplace Complaints

Nike has "begun a comprehensive review of its human resources operations, making management training mandatory and revising many of its internal reporting procedures" amid a review of its workplace environment, according to a front-page piece by Creswell, Draper & Abrams of the N.Y. TIMES. New reporting, including "interviews with more than 50 current and former employees, provides the most thorough account yet of how disaffection among women festered and left them feeling ignored, harassed and stymied in their careers." Many of those interviewed "also described a workplace environment that was demeaning to women." Nike CEO Mark Parker in a statement said, "It has pained me to hear that there are pockets of our company where behaviors inconsistent with our values have prevented some employees from feeling respected and doing their best work." Some of those interviewed said that the "weakness in women’s products in part reflected a lack of female leadership and an environment that favored male voices." Nike’s own research "shows that women occupy nearly half the company’s work force" but just 38% of positions of director or higher, and 29% of VPs (N.Y. TIMES, 4/29). In Portland, Jeff Manning wrote Nike's management challenges "transcend gender." For some employees it "simply became a toxic environment." Over the last five years, 24 current or former Nike "felt strongly enough to file formal complaints of unfair treatment with the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries." In the same period, the bureau has "received one complaint against both Adidas and Under Armour, Nike's rivals, which have considerably smaller workforces" in the state. Manning: "Is Parker safe? Does the board and Phil and Travis Knight have confidence he can lead the company through this wrenching cultural mess at the same time the company encounters challenges on the business front?" (Portland OREGONIAN, 4/29).

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