By | Varun Sachdeva | Global Talent Acquisition | Digital RPO & HRO | Digital Talent Solutions | Shared Services | Human Capital | Learning Academy | Permanent hiring | Staffing | Change Management & Transformation | Diversity & Inclusion
5-Step Approach for Organizations to Build a Diverse Workforce
While ‘workplace diversity’ may have sounded like a mere jargon a few years ago, it has become a major goal for organizations today. A diversified workforce has several benefits to offer, including higher innovation, peer-to-peer learning, variety of perspectives and business goodwill. Diversity in the team can help bring fresh ideas and varied skill sets to the table, encouraging richer conversations, inclusive thought-processes and groundbreaking solutions for your customers.
To achieve this, companies must reduce biases towards their candidates’ gender, cultural background, age, religion, race, sexual orientation or any other personal preference that is unrelated to job performance. This can be done by identifying and diminishing personal biases within your existing team and at the time of recruitment. These biases have the power to create a sense of discrimination and may turn away candidates that would have been a suitable fit for the job. The need of the hour is to create homogenous teams, which requires steps to be taken in the following direction.
1. Assess current diversity to set create favorable work environment