Message from Christina Weaver,
Manager, Global Inclusion and Diversity

"Global Inclusion is always in motion, always evolving. We achieved it every time we open ourselves up to new people, new experiences, new cultures, and new ideas. We achieve it every time we value each other's opinions and honor our differences."

To help us embrace and continually move our inclusion beliefs forward, Harris is fully committed to strengthening our relationships with the communities we work and live in. We do this by supporting our employees' active participation in many ways including local outreach projects, technology exchange programs, and charity events.

We also understand the importance of developing and implementing inclusion training and programs. As we invest in our employees' ongoing inclusion education, we help to further our awareness and enhance our capacity to embrace inclusion in the workplace as well as the marketplace.

Harris also believes in offering flexible work arrangements and nurturing the success of our employees by encouraging and supporting higher educational and career advancement opportunities. This too, is how we create a diverse, inclusive environment.

Harris' special outreach efforts include:

Participating in and hosting minority student job fairs or other minority–focused job events including: RPI–NSBE/SHPE Fall Career Fair, GA Tech Society of Black Engineers Annual Career Fair, Virginia Tech Career Fair sponsored by the Council for the Advancement of Minority Engineering Organizations (CAMEO), University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez.

Sponsoring student association events: Purdue-Sponsor for NSBE/SWE mock interviews, TSU-NSBE, University of Michigan-NSBE, University of Maryland-Center for Minorities in Science and Engineering networking reception and banquet, NC State support ECE dept in promoting participation of women/minorities in the field of engineering.

Our employees' participation on career panels at schools across the country: UF, UCF, Purdue, NC State, GA Tech, TSU, and RIT.

Outreach to leadership of student organizations: UF, UCF, NC State, GA Tech, University of Michigan, TSU, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, University of Maryland, Ohio State University, Auburn.

Providing scholarships or intern/fellowships for students as well as providing internships/co-ops to students.

Providing international students OPT (optional practical training)/work visas within our commercial businesses.

Establishing pre-college and pipeline programs: Expanding Your Horizons–UCF, MITE-TSU.

Creating partner programs with associations: WE@ RIT; PSU-Women in Engineering; University of Michigan-gEECS; UF-Step Up, Benton Engineering Council, SWE; UCF-Minority Engineering Programs and SWE; GA Tech-Women of COC, Women of ECE, GTSBE; NC State-SHPE, SWE; University of Maryland, Baltimore County-Center for Women and Information Technology Scholars Program.

Attending conferences including: SWE Regional Conferences, Grace Hopper, NSBE Regional, CMU Technical Opportunities Conference sponsored by SWE, and Women in Leadership, Linkage Diversity Summit.

Seeking employee referrals from our Harris employees.

Thanks to our partnership with Novations, experts in organizational development solutions, we are proud to offer The Managing Inclusion seminar.

The Managing Inclusion seminar provides tools that enable leaders to create the kind of inclusive environment in which all employees can perform their best work. Leaders learn the value of elevating performance through our similarities and differences, because they do make us better.

Through honest self-reflection, discussion, role plays, and structured assignments, this highly interactive seminar allows leaders and employees to build the skills they need to eliminate obstacles to incorporating inclusion into their day-to-day work.

The program supports participants to:

Identify what might be preventing more people on their team from performing at Go-To levels.

Use inclusion strategies to position more people on their team to contribute at higher levels.

Assess what informs the choices that are made every day about their team's capabilities.

For Global Inclusion to freely exist and flourish it takes more than simply saying, "We support Global Inclusion." It requires action. Harris continually seeks out new ways to make Global Inclusion a reality for all of our employees. Through our Core Values, specialized training and programs, and by recognizing an individual employee's needs to find a better balance between their work life and personal life.

Because we believe a work/life balance is important, Harris provides paid time off in the form of vacation, flexible holidays and sick leave/personal business. We also have 9/80 workweeks, 4/10 workweeks, summer hours, full-time and part-time hours, reduced workweeks, and job sharing and telework options based on a balanced consideration of employee and business needs.

Harris also encourages and supports the ongoing education of employees through our many Functional Rotational Development Programs as well as our offering of tuition assistance.

For the most current information on our benefits and flexible work arrangements, contact our Talent Management Center. To preview more of our benefits click here.

Harris Rotational Development Program
Length of program: One or Two years
Geographic locations of program: Melbourne/Palm Bay, FL; Denver, CO; Raleigh, NC: Rochester, NY; and greater Washington, D.C. area, etc.

Our rotation and development program is designed to provide job enrichment and career broadening experiences for professionals and recent college graduates. The program also develops candidates for future leadership positions throughout the organization.

The program may consists of rotations with different business segments and at Harris Corporate Headquarters offering exposure to a wide array of rich and diverse experiences spanning several businesses/product lines.

From around the globe and across a myriad of divisions and responsibilities, our employees share their thoughts about working at Harris.

We foster an inclusive culture that allows us to leverage our differences and reach our potential. Employee global diversity and inclusion is a fundamental part of the Harris culture. With global inclusion, the team perspective consists of the diversity that comes from the various current and past experiences we have had in the work environment, helping us come up with our best work.
- Cris Enriquez, Information Systems Technician D GCSD
Sunnyvale, California

The variety of people helps foster creative solutions and ideas and aids me in my daily decisions. Harris commits to global diversity and inclusion by recruiting the best talent with diverse backgrounds to bring the necessary knowledge and experience to our workplace. Global inclusion allows me, and my team, to have the appropriate knowledge base and experience to make the best decisions possible. For Harris it allows us to be competitive in the global marketplace by having the right people in the appropriate places for decision-making.
- Sandra Abdalian, Quality Engineer GCSD
Palm Bay, Florida

Harris is a professional, highly engaging, and growth oriented company. The opportunities and challenges of today's marketplace require each of us to give our best and it is critical for business success to recognize, support and respect the contributions of all its members. We are competing in a global marketplace. As such, it is important that our teams represent the world around us. We perform much better when we open ourselves up to new ideas, approaches, thought processes and ways of doing business.
- Janice Lindsay, Vice President, Strategic Sourcing CHQ
Melbourne, Florida

There is a lot of mutual respect among the employees and managers, and we all do our best to work as a team to support the customer. Harris' diverse workforce provides the skills and knowledge that is required to solve everyday problems that occur. We truly have become a global company. Our local staff members that speak the language and understand the culture can better support our customers. And we can readily bring the engineering skills of Harris staff from around the globe to help configure new systems, train operators, and solve problems much more quickly.
- Ted Sullivan, Senior Customer Support Engineer, BCD
Sydney, Australia

Diversity is more than just race, gender, and religion. It also means that we value differences in opinions. The best way to maintain high morale is to make everyone feel like their opinions and suggestions are valued and listened to.
- Phyllis Wang, Sr. Engineering Manager, RFCD
San Diego, California

At Harris, we continually seek the most successful strategies to reach high-potential candidates in a rapidly changing global marketplace. To further demonstrate our core value of Global Inclusion, below is a sample list of publications where we place our recruitment advertising campaigns:

• The Black Collegian
• US Black Engineer and Information Technology
• Diversity/Careers in Engineering and Information Technology
• GI Jobs
• Hispanic Engineer and Information Technology
• Women of Color Conference Magazine

We also utilize online job services and post positions on job boards which include but are not limited to:

• Monster
• Direct Employers
• Black Collegian
• Diversitycareers.com
• Diversity Working Online
• Military Hire
• LinkedIn Diversity Groups
• Careerbuilder.com
• NEFT
• 55-Alive
• Aspira.org
• Black Business Professionals
• El Nuevo Pueblo
• WomenThink.com
• Hispanic Careers
• Korea Direct
• Women Work
• Wounded Warrior Project: Warriors to Work