What ethical obligations, if any, do insurance companies and independent agencies and brokerages have in developing a more diverse industry workforce by recruiting, training and promoting more women and minorities in their respective ends of the business?
Less than half of the respondents to that question believe there is an ethical responsibility to develop a more diverse workforce. However, no one believed that seeking diversity among employees, under the right circumstances, was either a bad idea or a goal not worth pursuing.
One who believed in the ethical obligation was succinct, and this former risk manager was even insulted 
by the question: “Are you SERIOUSLY asking this question in the year 2009? What rock have you been living under?”
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