People Management – Employers too focused on diversity and have forgotten inclusion, says CIPD report

People Management – Employers too focused on diversity and have forgotten inclusion, says CIPD report

Employers should be spending less time focusing on diversity metrics and more on promoting genuine inclusion, according to a new report from the CIPD, which says businesses must tackle barriers such as poor progression and bias to introduce real change. I was pleased to contribute to this article about the report, Building inclusive workplaces, which was released 23 September 2019 to coincide with the start of National Inclusion Week. The report said employers were often too worried about creating a workforce that looked diverse, and needed to focus more on how employees with diverse backgrounds were supported and included once they were in the business. (more…)...
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