Workforce diversity within US is increasing at a fast pace. Management of diversity is a challenge for most organizations, at the same time it is important to have diversity at all levels within the organization. If you were planning to recruit for your organization, what steps would you undertake to make sure that you also plan for diversity?
Expert Answer
Bringing diversity in the workforce is very important from the perspective of originality, innovation, creativity and value rich organizational culture. It is done with full care and needs different steps to be taken up in in the organization.
The first step is to prevent any kind of discriminatory policy (if any), stereotype culture and other negativity to build a suitable organizational environment to inculcate and develop diversified workforce.
The second step is to bring objectivity in recruitment decision that favors right candidates irrespective of the gender, race, religion and ethnicity among the other factors. The first two steps will automatically start bring in people from the diversified background and diversity quotient will increase progressively.
The third step is to increase the coverage area of recruitment based job advertisements. Such ads should also be given to those newspapers that are popular among the specific ethnic groups. Recruitment drive should also take place in colleges where more number of candidates from different cultural background come to attend sessions. It will increase the diversity in the background of applicants. It will increase the probability of selection of candidates from diversified culture.
The fourth step is to take affirmative action and hire a few candidates who belong to minorities and needs special attention. It is also used to bring diversity in the workforce.
Above steps will definitely work to improve the diversity in the workforce.