O.C. Tanner’s whitepaper, ‘How recognition builds inclusion’, looks at how expectations around diversity and inclusion have shifted. Dr Alex Lovell, Director, research & data science at O.C Tanner talks about what the future of diversity looks like in Canada. Rethink: Lovell believes that many organizations have focused exclusively on diversity, and typically from a risk […]
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Improving Diversity Starts with a Culture Check
Every organization is unique and therefore any cultural transformation journey undertaken needs to be specifically tailored. According to a new report by Walking the Talk, diversity is one area where organizations have an opportunity to drive different behaviors and foster real change that goes well beyond simply recruiting different people or doing different things, to […]
Why Diversity and Inclusion matters at the workplace
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I) has perhaps created a lot more buzz in recent years. Talking purely in business terms, a 2020 McKinsey report revealed that companies with more than 30 percent of women executives are more likely to outperform companies with 10-30 per cent of the female workforce. And going forward, it is not […]
Key Steps for Achieving A Successful DEI Workplace Culture
Now, more than ever, organizations must foster a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive work culture. Creating a more equitable work organization isn’t just the right thing to do, but is also an important business decision. A 2019 report from consulting firm McKinsey & Company proves the business case for workplace equity, by illustrating how equitable […]
Top 4 Diversity Initiatives in 2021
Organizations are being asked to identify diverse talent to fill executive-level positions. The lack of diversity in leadership positions is consistently cited as a critical corporate issue, leading recruiters to pursue a wide range of executive diversity initiatives in 2021. According to an analysis by McKinsey, companies in the top quartile for gender diversity on […]
Senior recruitment has a diversity issue
Companies that prioritize D&I witness up to a 58% increase in worker performance, whilst companies with higher than average diversity at the Board level see 19% higher revenues than those who don’t prioritize it, according to McKinsey data. However, despite the fact that Deloitte statistics discovered that over 50% of employees believe that D&I needs to be […]