In 2016, the publishing house, Thomson Reuters launched its global D & I index to rank the Top 100 companies for diversity and inclusiveness. The index determines its rankings by applying 24 metrics across four key categories: Diversity, Inclusion, People Development and News Controversies. The D & I index is intended to serve not as a measure …
In many organisations when Symmetra is engaged to move the needle on the D & I agenda, we find it is taken for granted that the business case for diversity and inclusion is well established and serves as an elementary guiding principle for their business leaders. The focus we are told is “let’s get on …
Australia (as well as other countries in the Asia- Pacific region) could potentially reap massive economic benefits by 2025 if it takes accelerated steps towards gender parity. This is the conclusion drawn from the just- released report by McKinsey Global Institute—ThePower of Parity: Advancing Women’s Equality in Asia Pacific The report calculates that the region …
For years Symmetra has been advancing the proposition that diversity and inclusion benefits businesses with regard to employee engagement; enhancing the generation of ideas; innovation and ultimately profitability. This stance, supported by data and research relating to returns on investment, share price movements and metrics on innovative capability has become widely accepted. Now with a …
A Case of Inclusion Illiteracy As much as diversity is incomplete without a culture of inclusiveness, so inclusion is incomplete without encompassing employees as well as customers of an organisation. Customers desire to be inclusively treated by organisations as much as employees do. And like employees they will be extremely sensitive as to how inclusive …
Australians who received with joy and satisfaction the news that same-sex marriage is now legal in our country must have been outraged by a disconcerting legal battle that is taking place in the USA. At about the same time that the Australian parliament was putting the finishing touches to the law allowing gay marriage, the …
Sexism and Harassment Are Still With Us In recent years the focus on how unconscious bias hampers the advancement of women and diverse individuals at work has unnecessarily, caused attention to be diverted from a different problem which has never really gone away, namely the pernicious effects of deliberate everyday sexism and the blight which is closely …
RACISM RE-SURFACES IN DEMOCRATIC SOCIETIES Working across two continents in the US and UK over the last six weeks with a focus on positioning a multinational to leverage the full value diversity has to add in the workplace, I have ironically been exposed to disturbingly public displays of intolerance and inter-racial animosity . These incidents …
Symmetra has been delivering unconscious bias training to leaders across the globe over the past 6 years which has included working with many large corporations in the USA, some of whom have become outstanding exemplars of workplace diversity and inclusion. On my most recent working journey this month in the USA I have found it …
How does an organization know if it’s D&I program will provide a good return on investment? And how best to determine the right point of entry? A panel of 97 D & I experts from across the globe (of which Heather Price, CEO of Symmetra is one) have reached agreement on what makes for success …