Fundamentals of Management, 11/e

How Does Workforce Diversity and Inclusion Affect HRM?

Achieving workforce diversity and inclusion encompasses such basic HRM activities as recruitment, selection, orientation, training, performance management, and compensation/benefits.88

Improving workforce diversity requires managers to widen their recruiting net. For example, the popular practice of relying on current employee referrals as a source of new job applicants tends to produce candidates who have similar characteristics to those of present employees. So managers have to look for applicants in places where they haven’t typically looked before. To increase diversity, managers are increasingly turning to nontraditional recruitment sources such as women’s job networks, over-50 clubs, ...