Posts Tagged ‘Diversity’
Learning | Interrupted: How Learning is Shifting to a Benefit and Culture Priority
Employees need development and growth. It’s a constant driver of engagement, and in many studies, skill growth shows up in the top slot for predicting someone’s retention with their company. In our own reskilling research, we’ve found that seven out of 10 employees have left a job because of a lack of development options, yet…
Read MoreCompensation Technology Landscape and Buyer’s Guide Report [New Research]
Many employers spend more time and effort managing their $100 petty cash drawer than they do planning, strategizing, and managing a multimillion dollar compensation budget. This was one of many surprising findings in our latest research effort, digging into the world of compensation technology and the buyer’s mindset, but it certainly wasn’t the only one.…
Read MoreHow AI Can Positively Influence Diversity and Inclusion
Last month news broke that an AI-powered facial recognition technology used by law enforcement was actually biased against, well, pretty much everyone other than white men. This news hit the public like a slap in the face, but it’s something I’ve been seeing behind the scenes for some time now. Artificial intelligence as a technology…
Read MoreNew Research on Diversity and Inclusion Technology [Podcast]
(Subscribers click through to check out this episode) Our team has been researching diversity and inclusion with a specific look at how training can help (or hurt) D&I efforts. Stay tuned for our findings in the next few weeks, but today let’s take a look at the latest We’re Only Human podcast. In case you’re…
Read MoreDiversity Leads to Innovation, Innovation Leads to Revenue
Imagine walking into your new job full of nervousness and anxiety only to observe that no one in the building resembles yourself. Puzzled, you begin to question if you even belong. After all, will you be accepted by your coworkers, or will you ultimately be excluded because you are different from your counterparts? Women In…
Read MoreAlgorithms, Bias, and Decision-Making: Podcast Insights from IBM Leaders
To prevent biased algorithms you need to make sure you have unbiased training data on hand. You also need algorithms to be developed by a diverse set of people. –Lisa Seacat DeLuca, Director of Offering Management and Distinguished Engineer for IBM Watson Internet of Things How do we select vendors and what do we focus…
Read MoreAnalytics for Diversity: How IKEA Uses Data to Improve D&I Outcomes
Recently I had the opportunity to speak at a SHRM Diversity Conference. I spoke on bias, HR technology, and how AI might be able to help us avoid some of our biased tendencies (if we can keep the bias out of the systems themselves). It was a great session because the audience was more than…
Read MoreThe Impact of Algorithm Bias on Human Resources Practices
Diversity has always been a hot topic in the HR profession, but it has exploded into national news with all of the announcements and discoveries of improper behavior in the past year (and new stories seemingly cropping up every week). Diversity is an important aspect of running a business as it is directly related to a…
Read MoreDiversity Sourcing Strategy: 3 Tactics of Highly Diverse Companies
In my last blog, I wrote about the importance of diversity and inclusion, the relationship between diversity and business performance, and some best practices for implementing the two in your company. And while the evidence for diversity improving business performance is clear. The question remains – how do I source and recruit diversity? Understanding diversity’s…
Read MoreDiversity, Inclusion and the Case for Better Business Performance
Through researching diversity studies I discovered the importance of and difference between diversity and inclusion, the relationship between diversity and inclusion and business performance, and some best practices for implementing the two in your company. Diversity Diversity has become an HR buzzword. A word that is thrown around in recruiting meetings and used for promoting…
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