BIL FACTS
1. Offering flexible working
hours is key to improving a
company’s diversity and
inclusion (D&I) effectiveness
– not as a “female friendly”
policy just for the benefit of
working mothers, but simply
a “family friendly” one.
IDEAS LEARNING ACTION SOLUTION
Ia.) Flexible working i) How to improve i) Offering flexible
only applicable to company’s diversity and working hours is key to
certain type of inclusion (D&I) improving a company’s
business. effectiveness? diversity and inclusion
(D&I) effectiveness.
Ib.) Female friendly ii) Does flexible
should be working an effective ii) Yes, according to
implemented to cert tool to achieve better professional recruiting
diversity? group Hays plc, who says
flexible working is a
iii) At what stage “highly effective tool” to
flexible working should achieving better diversity
be implemented?
iii) Flexible working
should be implemented
early in the recruitment
stage.
In a press release on
Wednesday, the group also
highlights the need for
organizations to invest in
effective communication of
different working practices
among the workforce.
Effective i) What is the definition This means senior
communication of effective management and business
among the workers organization? leaders should be properly
is an important informed about what their
element to the ii) What are the needs organisation can offer, active
organization. for organization to promote these options to
invest in effective professionals, and where
Effective communication of possible, led by example
communication different working themselves.
should be practice by practices among the
all level of workforce?
workforce.
ii) Who should practice
effective
communication?
Sandra Henke, Group Head
of People and Culture at
Hays, highlights the need to
create family-friendly
policies instead of female-
friendly one sin order to
break down biases. Such
policies would in turn help
organisations to achieve
greater employee
engagement and retention as
well as gain access to a wider
talent pool, she adds.
Organization need to What should be
introduce policies in highlight by Group Head
order to break down of People to create
bias. family friendly policies?
What type of policy
should be implemented
by organization that can
break down bias?
What are the effect of
the policies to the
organization?