Recruitment and Diversity Enhances Customer
(Point 2)
Organisation Benefits of attracting and retaining a diverse workforce:
An increasing number of companies are realising the benefits of having a diverse workforce and as a result are incorporating equality and diversity objectives in their business strategies.
Diversity is a widely-used concept which refers to visible and non–visible differences between individuals. There are six main strands of diversity: race, gender, disability, sexual orientation, age, and religion which are covered by UK legislation. Diversity also incorporates differences such as class, personality and working patterns
What is meant by a diverse workforce?
Social diversity: Demographic diversity such as age, race ethics and gender
Value Diversity: Psychological difference in personality and attitudes
Information Diversity:
Benefits are: * Diversity in employment promotes cost-effective employment relations: Employers have more choice from a greater skills base, improved employee satisfaction, reduced internal disputes, greater workplace harmony, improved retention and more effective and fairer promotion of talent
* Diversity enhances customer relations: matching internal employee diversity to population diversity can provide performance benefits, which enhance awareness of consumer needs
* Diversity enhances creativity, flexibility and innovation in organisations: the flexibility, creativity and ability to innovate are enhanced by the existence of dissimilar mind sets
* Diversity promotes sustainable development and business advantage: e.g. external recruitment of diverse top-team talent to inject new ideas and challenge the organisational mind sets and ways of doing things that can hinder change and organisational progress.
(point 3)
Factors that affect an organisation approach to Recruitment and Selection
FACTORS AFFECTING RECRUITMENT
(point 4)
Different recruitment and selection methods
Organisation Benefits of attracting and retaining a diverse workforce:
An increasing number of companies are realising the benefits of having a diverse workforce and as a result are incorporating equality and diversity objectives in their business strategies.
Diversity is a widely-used concept which refers to visible and non–visible differences between individuals. There are six main strands of diversity: race, gender, disability, sexual orientation, age, and religion which are covered by UK legislation. Diversity also incorporates differences such as class, personality and working patterns
What is meant by a diverse workforce?
Social diversity: Demographic diversity such as age, race ethics and gender
Value Diversity: Psychological difference in personality and attitudes
Information Diversity:
Benefits are: * Diversity in employment promotes cost-effective employment relations: Employers have more choice from a greater skills base, improved employee satisfaction, reduced internal disputes, greater workplace harmony, improved retention and more effective and fairer promotion of talent
* Diversity enhances customer relations: matching internal employee diversity to population diversity can provide performance benefits, which enhance awareness of consumer needs
* Diversity enhances creativity, flexibility and innovation in organisations: the flexibility, creativity and ability to innovate are enhanced by the existence of dissimilar mind sets
* Diversity promotes sustainable development and business advantage: e.g. external recruitment of diverse top-team talent to inject new ideas and challenge the organisational mind sets and ways of doing things that can hinder change and organisational progress.
(point 3)
Factors that affect an organisation approach to Recruitment and Selection
FACTORS AFFECTING RECRUITMENT
(point 4)
Different recruitment and selection methods