Attached: The Importance Of Diversity In The Workplace

Attached is my recommendation report on diversity in the workplace at INOVA, and hiring process the company should follow in order to improve the company's workplace environment.

Summary
This recommendation report focuses on how diversity impact the workplace and what are some of the benefits of having a diverse company. It recommends the company to standardize the hiring process by focusing on the candidate as well as using technology to improve job descriptions and hiring process.

Discussion
Diversity is not about having a specific number of women, black or other racial minorities at a company. As Megan Rose Dickey says in her article “What A True Diverse Tech Company Would Look Like”; “It’s also about age, gender identity and expression,

One of those benefits is financial return for the company. Ruchika Tulshyan, a contributor at Forbes, cites statistics which shows how racially diverse companies outperform industry norms. The statistics show companies that value racial and ethnic diversity have 35% higher chance to have financial returns above national industry medians (Tulshyan, 2015). Companies which value gender diversity gain 15% more financial returns about national industry medians (Tulshyan,

Companies, HR people and interviewers tend to have certain biases when it comes to hiring people. Performance bias is an example of this issue. Siofra Pratt mentions the bias in her article “5 Techniques to Improve Diversity Hiring Practices in Your Company RIGHT NOW!” Pratt says, “For example, when 2 identical resumes were presented to recruiters – one with a man’s name, the other with a woman’s – both male and female recruiters found 79% of applicants with the male name and only 49% of applicants with the female name to be “worthy of hire””(Pratt, 2015). Partt adds that black sounding names received less calls for interviewers than white-sounding names by almost 50%. (Pratt,