Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts with the label expectations

Could the push for Diversity end up bad for business?

  I can hear all of the shouts . . . Diversity indeed is a must!   I recognise and wholly accept the critical benefits to business performance a diverse workforce brings.   A diverse workforce offers so much experience, Diversity of thought, problem-solving, ambition and drive. Something that needs applauding and promoting . . . but is the strive to achieve the ultimate diverse workforce resulting in an adverse effect on the business?   In a world filled with Diversity, are we pushing people into corporate silos through individual focus groups, personal agendas and drives – Could the impact result in exclusion?   Quotas . . . really, are we now in a position where an organisation could or are turning the right person away from recruitment, progression and/or promotion opportunities as they do not meet quota requirements?   When I open my front door every morning and step into the world, each person I see, walk past and engage with all have the same rights in life as me. Regardless of t