Employee engagement. What a concept.
Companies spend hundreds of millions of dollars every year on it . On increasing it, on measuring it, and on fixing it. If you’re running a small business that’s struggling with unenthusiastic employees, you’re not alone.
The first step to solving the problem? Correctly diagnosing it.
Apart from being a moral imperative, we know that prioritizing workplace diversity is a wise business decision. Research by McKinsey shows that companies in the top quartile for gender or racial and ethnic diversity are more likely to have financial returns above their national industry medians. But talent acquisition teams still struggle when it comes to hiring diverse candidates; unconscious bias plagues the process at every stage, and then there’s this tricky thing called tokenism.