Adecco's Advice on Improving Workplace Diversity - Building Gender Balanced Business

In a survey of employees’ view of diversity efforts at US companies, Adecco found that most workers think their companies talk a lot more about attaining diversity than actually doing anything about it. Here then are the employment company’s suggestions about what firms and managers can do to fix the problem:

• Get the entire company involved in the effort. First of all, make sure senior management is fully and publicly committed to the project, with full buy-in and investment. Then get employees involved, by asking them where greater diversity is needed and will help the company. Make the program incorporate their suggestions. And make sure all employees can safely provide input.

• Provide diversity training, with emphases on corporate, profit, legal and cultural reasons to improve diversity at the workplace.

• Back, and benefit from, local diversity groups. Working with groups close by is the best and easiest means to publicize company efforts and to expand contacts with the community, which can provide insights and people for greater success in attaining diversity.

Results of Adecco’s survey on diversity

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