Belonging: The Key to Transforming and Maintaining Diversity, Inclusion and Equality at Work

Belonging: The Key to Transforming and Maintaining Diversity, Inclusion and Equality at Work
ISBN-10
1472979613
ISBN-13
9781472979612
Series
Belonging
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
288
Language
English
Published
2021-01-19
Publisher
Bloomsbury Business
Authors
Mark Edwards, Sue Unerman, Kathryn Jacob

Description

A groundbreaking investigation into diversity and equality in the workplace, arguing that both men and women need to be active participants to promote meaningful progress. There's never been more discussion and activity around diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Every week, ever more high-profile statistics, stories and initiatives are swirling around: from gender and ethnicity pay gap differentials to #MeToo fallout, and from the focus on more diverse company boards to the prevalence of company-wide unconscious bias training, it seems that every company and organization has finally grasped that change needs to happen. Following interviews at over 200 businesses about the irrefutable business case for diversity at work, Sue Unerman, Kathryn Jacob and Mark Edwards have discovered one major problem that is holding back the move towards greater diversity: where are all the men? The book sets out to understand why more men aren't engaged with D&I initiatives in organizations--at one extreme they may be feeling actively hostile, and threatened by the changing cultural landscape. Others may be unmotivated to change: they may see diversity as a good thing in the abstract but can't see what's in it for them. Many will be open-minded and supportive, while still feeling unsure about what to do. Belonging will speak to both men and women, because: - Men need to understand how they can benefit from more diverse cultures and how they can become champions of new ways of working; and - Women need to have an awareness of where men are right now, and identify the most effective ways of bringing them on board to ensure that diversity initiatives do not fall at the first hurdle.

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