This week, the Westminster Business School and the CIPD have launched a brand-new report. They are going to discuss the findings and what it actually means for the practice. The research maps out the current evidence for diversity in organisations as well as using scientific research to find out what works. The launch event picked up on various themes as well as using a wide-ranging discussion panel on either side of the research to give an accurate result.

The Focus

If you work in labour recruitment or if you have experience in labour jobs, then you will know how important it is to make sure that there is somewhat diversity in training. A lot of organisations are choosing not to record or even evaluate the quality of their training initiatives and for this reason, it's becoming very difficult to evaluate how effective they are. Practitioners are giving their own insight and they are also talking from their personal experience as well. They are trying to further their diversity practice and they are also putting the work in to improve things overall.

The debate also explored which steps still have to be taken in order to push things forward in terms of UK organisations. One theme that actually did emerge was the fact that flexible working hours were boosted. This is designed to try and support people of every background so that they can enter the labour market and thrive there.

Other Steps

Other steps that were mentioned include the fact that more diversity needs to be brought into the HR profession and that there needs to be much more of an intersectional approach. Overlapping identities need to be considered as well and this is going to make a huge difference overall.