Inclusion: Reaping what you sow

Posted by Janine Milne in Recruitment, Managing people, Business lifestyle on Tue, 28/02/2012 - 16:17
From the rallying cry of the Lord Davies report calling for more women to join British boardrooms to the abolition of the official retirement age, diversity has been in the full glare of the media spotlight over the last year.
 
Yet the story at ground level is rather different and the key theme in diversity terms this year is a lack of real commitment from many quarters.
 
When the recession began to tighten its grip in 2008-2009, many firms simply dropped their diversity programmes as they concentrated on weathering the extreme economic conditions.
 
Denise Keating, chief executive of the Employers Network for Equality and Inclusion, explains: “Some companies have completely decimated their diversity team and say it is handled under line management - which is basically them saying they are not doing anything about it.”
 
Although it is an understandable reaction to ditch non-core activities during tough times, Zena Martin, managing director of diversity consultancy, click here for a reminder

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Hello! I'm a great believer in the power of stories, whether they be folk tales, novels, films or TV dramas.
 
They have a wonderful ability to get complex moral or social issues over to us in a palatable, easy-to-understand way and can provide many lessons if only we care to look just a little bit below the surface.
 
But they can also act as a fun starting point for discussion and debate on rather more serious topics that are all too often brushed under the carpet and ignored.
 

Hence our decision to start up a Review slot on the site to look at those everyday stories that are all around us from an HR perspective.

Although we've been publishing book reviews (take a look at our Book Club list of suggested possible non-fiction works for evaluation here) for some time, you may also have noticed that we've been running a weekly home page blog on The Apprentice courtesy of The Chemistry Group for a while now.

And Pauline Wood, managing director at specialist retail headhunter, court & spark consulting, was likewise kind enough to write our first film review on the Headhunters movie.

But the big question is, why don't you give it a go yourself? There's a world of choice out there and I, like the rest of the community, would love to hear your thoughts and insights.

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