Diversity, Equality & Inclusion
In today’s competitive business environment, employers must be creative, innovative, and have a willingness to embrace the values of diversity, equality & inclusion, as a cornerstone to achievement of the success they desire. A demonstrated commitment further reflects an employer’s dedication in supporting important social responsibilities and creating a modern workforce to respond to today’s business needs.
Alera Connect HR offers expertise to support fostering a culture of respect and belonging, by assisting companies to understand and build upon these values for their own strategic advancement. We do this by helping to facilitate and build solid practices to support an environment that embraces DE&I practices in everything that they do.
Employers that place DE&I as a high priority, are now more likely than ever to outperform less diverse peers on profitability (McKinsey – Diversity Wins: How inclusion matters May 2020)
Alera ConnectHR has the resources to help build a truly diverse, equitable and diverse workplace environment.
Helping Businesses to Create a Diverse, Equitable and Inclusive Culture
Facilitate Senior Leadership Commitment:
Build and Foster Practices and Policies to Support a DE&I Workforce:
- Build recruitment and advancement policies and processes to support inclusion of diverse talent
- Set the right data driven targets to support representation of diverse talent
- Build succession plans and development of key talent, that support DE&I values
Provide an environment that supports openness and understanding:
- Training curriculums to create awareness, an environment of zero tolerance, and tackle microaggressions (e.g., discriminatory behavior, bullying and harassment)
Establish Equality of Opportunity
- Establish and build pay plans and practices that support equitable pay
- Ongoing commitment to build and review of pertinent metrics to assess success and where adjustment may be needed to achieve diversity targets in long term workforce plans
