AIHR Learning Bite: How to Reach Your Workforce Diversity Goals in 7 Steps In this Bite we’re exploring how to achieve workforce diversity goals in 7 steps, by: 1. Identifying the make-up of your organization. 2. Setting the right roles and responsibilities. 3. Looking for diverse sourcing channels. 4. Partnering with different communities for diverse…
Out of the many themes in HR, diversity frequently gets the spotlight. Yet seeing advanced analytics or AI solutions applied to diversity is rare, especially when compared to themes like turnover and absenteeism. Of course, putting numbers on gender, ethnicity, etc. is tricky: the very insights to counter discrimination might also be used to discriminate.…
Workforce diversity, whether it’s gender, ethnic, or age diversity, is often linked to strong organizational performance. Other benefits of workforce diversity are the fact that it drives innovation, creates skill diversity and that it makes your company more appealing to a broader customer and candidate demographic. But how do you go about actually building…
Just like racial and gender discrimination in our society, the problem with corporate diversity is structural. The challenges of treating all citizens or all employees with equal respect and dignity, of incorporating them efficiently into decision-making, and of seeing their voices equally heard are in both cases inhibited by millennia of social infrastructure. The deck…
Are generational differences in the workplace a thing or not? Some say they most definitely are, others say they’re an absolute myth. In this article, we’re going to take a look at the current generational diversity in the workplace; what generations make up the global workforce, how do they perceive work and how can organizations…
Have you seen The Intern? If you haven’t, I’d recommend you watch it. It’s a film starring Anne Hathaway and Robert De Niro and although I doubt it was the writer’s intention, it’s about age diversity in the workplace. But wrapped in a slick-looking, Hollywood style package of course. In a nutshell – and without…
Diversity & Inclusion initiatives are more than only counting demographic or gender headcounts and reporting these metrics in bite-size “diversity” scorecards or dashboards. These types of metrics are quota-based metrics and will tell you how many women hold a leadership role or how many people from black, Asian, and other minority backgrounds are part of…
Diversity hiring is about much more than ticking boxes. Being a hot topic, workplace diversity gets a lot of mentions in HR trend lists for 2018. But rather than simply creating the perfect male/female ratio, there’s a strong business rationale behind diversity hiring. In today’s article, we’ll take a closer look at hiring for diversity…
It’s easy to say that your company is diversified and inclusive. With the recent news of numerous employee diversity and inclusion issues in a lot of industries, including Serena Williams joining a Silicon Valley boardroom to help companies diversify their workforce, companies are becoming increasingly aware of their activities when it comes to hiring. This…