Recruitment and Retention

Recruitment and retention is an integrated strategy for successfully recruiting, developing, retaining, and advancing employees to improve business performance. It includes performance management, succession planning, competency management, career development, systems integration, and leadership development. Effective recruitment and retention practices produce and sustain a gender-diverse workforce.

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Recruitment and Retention

Career Advancement in Corporate Canada: A Focus on Visible Minorities – Survey Findings (Report)

This report explores how visible minority women and men perceive their career advancement and development in corporate Canada.

Career Advancement in Corporate Canada: A Focus on Visible Minorities

2007 - 2009 Catalyst's research series Career Advancement in Corporate Canada: A Focus on Visible Minorities explores how visible minority women…

Women of Color

Career Advancement in Corporate Canada: A Focus on Visible Minorities – An Early Preview (Report)

This report explores how visible minority women and men perceive their career advancement and development in corporate Canada.

Catalyst Award Winner

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. – Securing Talent and Excellence in the Pipeline: The Senior Women’s Initiative (Practices)

Goldman Sachs' Securing Talent and Excellence in the Pipeline: The Senior Women's Initiative is a global effort that aims to…

Catalyst Award Winner

PepsiCo, Inc. – Women of Color Multicultural Alliance (Practices)

PepsiCo is firmly committed to leveraging the diversity of perspectives that its talented associates bring to the company and to…

Catalyst Award Winner

Scotiabank – Unlocking Potential, Delivering Results: The Advancement of Women (AoW) Initiative (Practices)

Scotiabank's Unlocking Potential, Delivering Results: The Advancement of Women (AoW) Initiative is a far-reaching, business-driven initiative focused on seven strategic…

Catalyst Award Winner

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP – UPE Unique People Experience (Practices)

At PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Unique People Experience (UPE) was created to reduce turnover, maximize the productivity of the firm's staff, and…

Catalyst Award Winner

BP p.l.c. – Global Path to Diversity and Inclusion (Practices)

BP formally launched its current diversity initiative in 2000 by creating a Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) function that is run by Group Vice President of Executive Development and D&I.

Catalyst Award Winner

The Chubb Corporation – Reach Up, Reach Out, and Reach Down (Practices)

Chubb's efforts prepare high-potential women and people of color for leadership positions, while charging them with coaching and mentoring their colleagues.

Catalyst Award Winner

Safeway Inc. – Championing Change for Women: An Integrated Strategy (Practices)

Safeway seeks to promote management talent from within, drawing from all levels, including entry-level store employees, to fill its leadership ranks.

Catalyst Award Winner

Georgia-Pacific Corporation – Bridging Cultures, Leveraging Differences (Practices)

This initiative is premised on a strong diversity business case generated by the diversity-of-thought concept, which maintains that different types of thinking stem from different dimensions of diversity.

Catalyst Award Winner

Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP – Strategies for Success: An Ongoing Commitment to Diversity (Practices)

The goal of Sidley’s overall diversity effort is three-fold: to increase the firm’s success in retaining women attorneys and attorneys of color; to promote a greater number of women associates and associates of color to partnership; and to promote a greater number of these partners to positions of power within the firm.

2004 EOWA Australian Census of Women in Leadership (Report)

This Census was produced by EOWA, a Catalyst Census Partner.

Recruitment and Retention

Women and Men in U.S. Corporate Leadership: Same Workplace, Different Realities? (Report)

This study measures the attitudes and experiences of Fortune 1000 women and men executives directly below the CEO level.

Catalyst Award Winner

General Electric – Developing Women Leaders: Synergistic Forces Driving Change (Practices)

General Electric uniquely addresses the challenge of talent development by providing management women with the information, experience, and visibility needed to become leaders.

Women of Color

Advancing African American Women in the Workplace: What Managers Need to Know (Report)

This report examines the barriers facing African-American women in the workplace.

Catalyst Award Winner

Harley-Davidson, Inc. – Optimizing Talent: A Culture of Empowerment (Practices)

Harley-Davidson’s effort focuses on development, visibility, and advancement opportunities for all employees.

Catalyst Award Winner

Shell Oil Company U.S. – Valuing and Leveraging Diversity to Become a Model of Inclusiveness (Practices)

Shell created an environment in which differences in background and perspective are respected, valued, and leveraged.

STEM

Bit by Bit: A Catalyst Guide to Advancing Women in High Tech Companies (Report)

Catalyst embarked on the current study to delve deeper into the issues facing women in the high tech industry.

Women of Color

Advancing Asian Women in the Workplace: What Managers Need to Know (Report)

This report examines the barriers facing Asian-American women in the workplace.