Diversity
How do I get the best out of a diversified team?
Society is characterised by diversity and so is the shop floor. People often think that diversity is helpful for organisations because individuals with different backgrounds bring different types of knowledge and skills with them. Nevertheless, actually achieving this economic advantage in practice has proved to be difficult. We would like to show you how you can maximise the benefits of diversity, counter the ‘we-them’ mentality and minimise mutual conflicts and counterproductivity.
How can organisations increase the number of women and minorities in senior positions?
While diversity - the occurrence of differences between people as far as demographic characteristics are concerned - is exemplary for our society, the senior management in many organisations is still rather homogeneous. As a centre of expertise, we research whether minorities, such as women or employees with a different ethnic background, are struggling with prejudice at work and how this struggle affects their performance and career prospects. Our expertise in this area supports organisations in preventing unconscious forms of stereotyping and social exclusion and improves their understanding of how to facilitate the advancement of minorities.
Looking at diversity together
Our centre of expertise studies questions from practice in a scientific manner. For example, we regularly conduct elaborate field research within organisations, where we ask questions about diversity to staff members as well as team executives. Besides that, we dispose of the skills and expertise required to analyse complex and objective archive data in organisations for the purpose of determining whether there are, for instance, (unfair) differences between minorities and majorities as regards job level, salary and team participation. We help to clarify our findings for organisations by giving training courses and seminars and providing reports from practice, offering them concrete tools to deal with diversity in the best possible way.
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