If there is only one woman in your candidate pool there is statistically no chance she’ll be hired.

Details

Despite the ever-growing business case for diversity, roughly 85% of board members and executives are white and male. The biggest challenge increasing diversity in hiring seems to be figuring out how to overcome unconscious biases that get in the way of these well-intentioned programs. Harvard Business Review conducted three studies to examine what happens when you change the status quo among finalists for a job position and shares the results in this article .

Recommendations

Company Level:

Large Employer (over 1,000 employees), Mid-size Employer (250-1,000 employees), Small Employer (fewer than 250 employees)

Type:

Informational

Tags

Related Reading

When Work Works is a nationwide initiative which brings research on workplace effectiveness and flexibility into community and business practice. It is a project of…
Business has been a field of study for centuries. The first MBA was issued by the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration in 1908. Within…
Many companies already have diverse teams. Inclusive leaders are those who have an understanding of how to both embrace diversity and work well with their…