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All companies need skilled employees. When we hire new staff, we look at professional and social skills etc. But how good are we at abstracting from:
You can ask yourself the question: Why work with diversity?
There can be many advantages to having a focus on diversity in the workplace. Let's take some examples:
But one must not be blind to the fact that there can also be challenges in relation to creating diversity in the workplace.
An employee who has a disabled person in their family will, other things being equal, be better able to see the possibilities in cooperation with a disabled colleague than an employee who has not had a disability in their life.
You must therefore expect to have to allocate some resources in relation to information and to be listening in relation to questions and possible objections.
There are primarily two things that apply in this context:
Before we focus on how you can create diversity in your workplace, let's take a moment to look at the difference between diversity and inclusion, as there is some conceptual confusion on this point.
The terms diversity and inclusion are related terms, but do not cover the same thing:
When we talk about inclusion, we also talk about supply conditions. It can be about the psychological working environment. Is it a safe workplace? Is there social and good contact between the colleagues?
If the management or the HR department has communicated the business benefits of increased diversity, then the diversity goals will become as important as the:
However, diversity without inclusion creates no business value!
Nor if the diversity meets the KPIs and quotas.
Try asking yourself the following questions, is diversity:
After this reflection, we are ready to look at how you include diversity as part of your recruitment process.
If you do not focus on diversity in the workplace, then it is most likely that there will not be any major changes on this point either, because it is quite normal to find a copy or a replacement for the employee who has just left your workplace.
Therefore, when you have to create your next job advertisement, you should not just copy a previous job advertisement. Try rewording both the title and the body. It is about the job seeker feeling welcome in your company.
What will you emphasise? Different generations emphasise different things:
Try to reflect on whether you will choose a candidate who:
Once you have hired the new employee, the next step is the onboarding process.
In order to have a good onboarding process in a diverse workplace, it requires you and others in the company to be role models. A role model can have several functions:
For example, and completely impractically, it can arouse great emotions and ultimately create a polarised work environment when the discussion falls on toilet conditions in the workplace
It is actually not decisive what gender you have. The point is the same. It's about being safe. Also when you as an employee, go to the toilet.
Whether or not there should be gender neutral toilet facilities at your workplace may depend on the mood of the management or the staff. Where a gender neutral toilet can give the inclusive signals that the company wants to embrace, there can be completely impractical challenges in that context.
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