Diversity Tag

Have you encountered individuals at the workplace whose working style is distinctly different from everyone on the team?  Have you felt that a particular employee takes conversations to a different tangent during discussions frequently? Have you witnessed colleagues who struggle with social interactions and get easily tired after office parties? Or have you seen colleagues coming up with...

Meet Kanmani, a resilient and inspiring transwoman lawyer who is breaking barriers and fighting for a brighter future. After a long day at her tax law firm in Chennai, she sat down for an interview, looking tired but wearing a smile that warmed the room. Despite the exhaustion, she remained patient, ensuring the conversation was unhurried and wrapped up right on time. However, Kanmani’s...

Diversity and Inclusion are two valuable pillars of successful management. It not only ensures equal rights to all the potential choices, but also brings a lot of creativity, different viewpoints, and shared knowledge to the table. These principles of Diversity and Inclusion are not just restricted to corporate organizations, but every form of management to ever exist in human history. To...

After much deliberation, the BU Head of the Healthcare division hired Merlyn – a Data Analyst to take over the non-core, transactional activities of the Delivery Managers (DMs). In doing so, he earned himself Diversity brownie points, for Merlyn was from an underrepresented group that MNCs like theirs encouraged hiring. The DMs were happy to offload non-value adding work to Merlyn and...

The banter of excited friends meeting at their 10th year reunion filled the college lawn. Gautam, a classic backbencher and now Marketing Director took this opportunity to flippantly tease his batchmate Neetu, presently the AVP-HR of a prominent bank. Gautam angled – ‘Neetu, I heard that women in the Banking industry are getting promoted for their gender?’ Neetu – ‘Promoting...

My friend Madhav hosted a dinner for his foreign counterparts visiting India. As his millennial team had had no experience in attending formal get-togethers, he gently guided them to dress and behave suitably. To his pleasant surprise, the team outdid his expectations by dressing immaculately and appropriately engaging the guests, making the party a roaring success. Wanting to get home...

After a year of planning, our rather large team finally got together for a two-day outbound event. On day one of the team-building activity, the boss on his customary smoking break was eagerly joined by the cigarette-smoking members of the team. Witnessing the bonhomie evolve, many non-smoking members who could withstand the smoke, soon joined their orbit. Energized by the clique, the boss...

Before we get into the 5 proven tips for hiring managers for Inclusive Hiring, lets us try to understand what is Inclusive Hiring & why it is important. What is Inclusive Hiring? Awaiting our turn outside a ‘not-so-soundproof’ cabin, we overhear an irate Hiring Manager talk to his Recruitment counterpart saying ‘Let’s close the position with the candidate we interviewed yesterday. There...

When my super boss called me to his cabin, I assumed he wanted to guide me on preparing for the overseas Internal Job Posting that I had applied for. As a top performer, I knew I had a good chance of being selected. Sadly, he hadn’t called to provide me guidance. The meeting circled around whether I had discussed the application with my husband and both our families, and what their reactions...

As per a Swedish survey, the Indian stats at manufacturing sectors hire only 3% to 12% women. While China’s number is much higher at around 25%. During my workshops at manufacturing sectors the common query that employees have in their minds.  “Why should women work? Aren’t they better off taking care of homes, isn’t that an important role too to nurture that children and family?”...