34 Articles found for subject: Diversity

While backlash to DEI has challenged how many companies and practitioners approach creating more equitable workplaces, fewer have considered whether DEI work itself has room to improve. A new framework, built around the core outcomes of fairness, access, inclusion, and representation (FAIR) that DEI was supposed to achieve for all, offers a new direction. Instead of the performative, individual-centered, isolated, and zero-sum methods of the current … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Lily Zheng | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Diversity, Human Resources

While most business leaders now believe having a diverse and inclusive culture is critical to performance, they don’t always know how to achieve that goal. Here are eight powerful truths that can help turn aspirations into reality.

Content: Article | Authors: Bernadette Dillon, Juliet Bourke | Source: Deloitte Review | Subjects: Diversity, Human Resources, Organizational Behavior

In merit-based systems, fairness should be manifested in all aspects of organizational life. But while the ideal of a merit-based society is attractive, research shows that bias in promotions and reward distribution is just as prevalent as bias in hiring, exacerbating and multiplying rather than reducing unfairness in the span of our careers. In the world we live in, true meritocracy, where everyone plays on an … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Ludmila N. Praslova | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Diversity, Human Resources

Tailored, practical diversity trainings offered at the right decision points can yield meaningful change, says new research by Edward H. Chang and colleagues.

Content: Article | Authors: Edward H. Chang, Michael Blanding | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Diversity, Hiring, Human Resources

Narcissism. Overconfidence. Low EQ. Why do we persist in selecting for leadership traits that hamper organizational progress—and leave the right potential leaders in the wrong roles?

Content: Article | Authors: Brooke Weddle, Bryan Hancock, Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Diversity, Human Resources, Leadership, Organizational Behavior

Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is grabbing a lot of headlines, but let’s look beyond the latest debates to understand some labor market dynamics that can help employers hire and retain talent to meet business needs. New research from the McKinsey Global Institute compares women’s and men’s work experiences to better understand the tough trade-offs at play in the world of work.

Content: Article | Author: Kweilin Ellingrud | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Diversity, Human Resources, Organizational Behavior, Women in Business

Diversity and inclusion efforts that focus on business outcomes alone rarely address root causes. Jamillah Bowman Williams, a visiting fellow at the Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society, offers tips for companies navigating their next stage of the DEI journey.

Content: Article | Authors: Barbara DeLollis, Jamillah Bowman Williams, Katherine Hutt Scott | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Diversity, Human Resources

Insperity CEO rejects check-the-box approach to diversity in favor of strategic values that lead to effective outcomes.

Content: Article | Authors: Dale Buss, Paul Sarvadi | Source: Chief Executive | Subjects: Diversity, Human Resources

Organizations of all sizes and across industries pledged their support to DEI initiatives in 2020, including building more diverse and equitable companies, and to using their power for good. Now, with the spotlight no longer shining quite so brightly on corporate DEI, how much progress have organizations made against their promises? To understand the state of DEI efforts since 2020, the authors looked at aggregated, … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Evelyn R. Carter, Natalie Johnson | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Diversity, Human Resources

Three kinds of bias often creep into the performance-review process, in ways that disproportionately affect women, especially when they choose to take advantage of the flexibility offered by hybrid and remote work. These biases are experience bias, which leads reviewers to overvalue tasks that are easy to define; proximity bias, which leads them to think that people in their immediate orbit do the most important … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Paola Cecchi-Dimeglio | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Diversity, Human Resources, Women in Business

Eighty percent of Fortune 500 companies explain their interest in diversity by making some form of a business case: justifying diversity in the workplace on the grounds that it benefits companies’ bottom line. And yet, in a recent study, the authors found that this approach actually makes underrepresented job candidates a lot less interested in working with an organization. This is because rhetoric that makes … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Aneeta Rattan, Oriane Georgeac | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Diversity, Human Resources

Organizations need to develop and implement clearly defined rules regarding how they use online information about job candidates, a new paper on cybervetting says.

Content: Article | Author: Matt Shipman | Source: Futurity.org | Subjects: Diversity, Hiring, Human Resources

Improving employees’ experience of inclusion in the workplace is one of the most actionable levers companies have to attract and retain talent. When done right, inclusion can slash attrition risk in half.

In today’s fiercely competitive environment, inclusion is akin to a hidden superpower, so why do so few companies view it as a business necessity? The answer is simple: workplace inclusion is hard to define, … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Alex Zborowski, Ashley Dartnell, Gabrielle Novacek, Gretchen May, Mario Farsky, Nadjia Yousif, Seema Bansal | Source: Boston Consulting Group (BCG) | Subjects: Diversity, Human Resources, Organizational Behavior

A new study published in Nature Human Behaviour sheds light on the role of within-job pay differences in the gender pay gap.

Content: Article | Authors: Halil Sabanci, Marta Elvira, Paula Apascaritei | Source: IESE Insight | Subjects: Compensation, Diversity, Human Resources, Organizational Behavior, Women in Business

How do you know if your company is making progress on gender diversity? This article discusses five areas where tracking metrics and data will help leaders know if they’re making wins—or falling short.

Content: Article | Authors: Katie Abouzahr, Lauren Van Der Kolk, Matt Krentz, Nadjia Yousif | Source: Boston Consulting Group (BCG) | Subjects: Diversity, Human Resources

A recent BCG study suggests that increasing the diversity of leadership teams leads to more and better innovation and improved financial performance. In both developing and developed economies, companies with above-average diversity on their leadership teams report a greater payoff from innovation and higher EBIT margins. Even more persuasive, companies can start generating gains with relatively small changes in the makeup of their senior teams. … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Katie Abouzahr, Matt Krentz, Miki Tsusaka, Nicole Voigt, Rocío Lorenzo | Source: Boston Consulting Group (BCG) | Subjects: Diversity, Human Resources, Innovation, Organizational Behavior

Corporate America continues to face a gender equity gap at its highest levels of leadership, especially for women and people of color.

Content: Article | Authors: Dominique Harris, Douglas Sandy MacKenzie, Kristen Robinson, Preethi Prasad | Source: Kearney | Subjects: Corporate Governance, Diversity, Human Resources

We recently surveyed roughly 16,500 people worldwide to identify the most effective diversity and inclusion measures. Our investigation builds on previous research into gender diversity. For our current analysis, we broadened our lens to include diversity in two additional dimensions: race and ethnicity and also sexual orientation. Through that research, we identified specific solutions that companies can implement to accelerate their progress on diversity.

Content: Article | Authors: Elliot Vaughn, Jennifer Garcia-Alonso, Justin Dean, Matt Krentz, Miki Tsusaka | Source: Boston Consulting Group (BCG) | Subjects: Diversity, Human Resources

When it comes to gender equity in the workplace, many organizations focus largely on hiring more women. But to achieve more equitable representation, it’s also critical to examine disparities in how employees are evaluated and promoted once they’re on board. In this piece, the authors discuss their recent research on this topic, which found that competitive evaluation systems in which employees are ranked against one … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Klarita Gërxhani | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Diversity, Human Resources, Organizational Behavior, Women in Business

Gender diversity can be a profound business challenge —or a source of competitive advantage. But it’s not women who need to change. It’s the workplace.

Content: Article | Source: Boston Consulting Group (BCG) | Subjects: Diversity, Human Resources, Women in Business