Inclusive Hiring

Inclusive Hiring: Seven Tips for Diversity in Recruiting

How does my team become more diverse? It seems obvious to look for the solution to more diversity in recruiting. However, the most important work should begin before the actual hiring process. After all, the ground for the success of diverse teams is the inclusive culture of the company. 1. Define what diversity, equity and inclusion mean for your company before you start diversity....

Inclusion and Unconscious Bias

Inclusion & Unconscious Bias: What you should consider

Inclusion and unconscious bias do not go well together. They are like magnetic poles that repel each other. Why? Simple social psychology: if biases are not actively challenged, teams are formed primarily on similarities. An effective Diversity & Inclusion Strategy helps to act more bias-consciously. But why do people often act in an unconsciously exclusionary way? This is socio-psychologically...

Diverse team

When is it a diverse team?

The other day, a phrase in a job advertisement particularly caught my eye. In the last paragraph they emphasised that they were very interested in applications from diverse candidates. That's where I got stuck. Because: what is a diverse candidate anyway? Does that imply that there are non-diverse applicants and if so, what do they look like - far beyond the...

Diversity Business Case

Why Diversity & Inclusion is not a business case for me

Diversity is good for business. Not only from an ethical or legal point of view, but also from a financial one. I have already written here about why diversity is something for financial managers. And I think it is important to emphasise this again and again: because the financial argument takes diversity & inclusion (D&I) as a management principle out of the corner of "soft nice-to-have" ....

Why Diversity is for Chief Financial Officers

More and more companies are making use of diversity strategies. Many tech companies such as Pinterest, Facebook, Google and Slack have been focusing on the concept in their corporate strategies for several years. But what are the financial benefits? Slack: Setting an example The example of Slack: The web-based instant messaging service from San Francisco has focused its hiring policy on people...