Factors Affecting Gender Diversity in an Organization

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Improving Gender Diversity in the Organization Abstract Emerson Innovation’s Pune center seeks to raise its gender diversity ratio to 25%. Despite work from home facilities and guard escorted transport, it has not been able to increase the ratio. Using secondary research, this paper attempts to understand the case for gender diversity, narrow down on areas to work on and understand the latest research findings on gender diversity in organizations. Our survey of literature has shown that women bring in a fresh perspective and have a stronger ethical core, a strong case for diversity. As a part of our study, we looked at recruitment and retention policies. In this context, research has identified two broad classifications of recruitment policies – the fat funnel approach and the pipeline method. Studies have also shown that revisiting job requirements to make them more appealing/accessible to women and the adoption of competency frameworks which are based on soft skills, transferrable skills will work towards increasing diversity. Secondary research narrowed down the following areas to focus on: understanding the link between an organization’s performance and gender diversity, making jobs more appealing to women, gender diversity at the top levels, organizations’ retention strategies along with factors that make women stay on as well as sexual harassment at the work place. Keywords: Gender diversity, recruitment, retention, sexual harassment. Introduction Gender diversity in an organizational context is rapidly gaining importance worldwide. Diversity recruitment has a lot of benefits. Men and women have different points of view, thinking, and insights, which facilitates development of out-of-the box solutions to the complex challenges that an organization faces. According to an RSA (the executive search firm) study (2012), women create a richer work

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