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.
Results
Assessing the Talent Management of High-Potential Women in India (Tool)
Use this tool to promote inclusive work environments as a means to help organizations attract, develop, and retain high-potential talent—especially women.
High-Potential Employees in the Pipeline: Maximizing the Talent Pool in Canadian Organizations (Report)
This report helps organizations operating in Canada understand their talent pool within a regional context.
Tool: Vital Signs: Guide to Telling Your Story With Data
This guide describes five steps to take to help make inclusive talent decisions.
One Approach to Setting Goals for Impact (Tool)
This tool will show you how to use proportional representation to set appropriate goals for diversity.
Vital Signs: Excel Template (Tool)
As you input workforce data, this Excel template automatically calculates proportions and rates needed for graphs and/or charts.
Nestlé – International Dual Career Network (Practices)
What began as a company initiative has become a non-profit aimed at creating opportunities for employees at several organizations.
Haynes and Boone, LLP – Women’s Leadership Academy and Minority Attorney Connections (Practices)
Learn about the progress of people from underrepresented groups after a mentoring and professional development program was launched at Haynes and Boone.
A Bright Spot: How Diverse Slate Policies Help Close the Gender Gap (Practices)
Learn how four Catalyst Award winning companies used diverse slates to help close their gender gap.
Pfizer Inc. – Leadership, Engagement, Advancement, and Development (LEAD) Program (Practices)
Pfizer's LEAD (Leadership, Engagement, Advancement, and Development) program increases career opportunities and visibility for high-performing diverse individuals.
High Potentials in the Pipeline: On Their Way to the Boardroom (Report)
This report highlights the differences between women's and men's career experiences and satisfaction.
BNY Mellon – Fostering Global Inclusion and Multiculturalism (Practices)
To attract and retain diverse talent, the company bolstered support for its employee resource groups.
Vital Signs: Using Your Data to Close the Gaps (Tool)
This tool uses a guided approach to show you how to apply a diversity lens to your workforce data.
Vital Signs: PowerPoint Template (Tool)
This powerful PPT template can help you analyze your data to close gender gaps at your organization.
Alcoa Inc. – Building Opportunities for Women in a “Hard Hat” Company (Practices)
In the midst of hard economic times, Alcoa’s initiative Building Opportunities for Women in a “Hard Hat” Company is increasing women’s representation in leadership roles and promoting gender inclusion in a male-dominated […]
Unilever – Global Reach With Local Roots: Creating a Gender-Balanced Workforce in Different Cultural Contexts (Practices)
Unilever’s initiative, Global Reach With Local Roots: Creating a Gender-Balanced Workforce in Different Cultural Contexts, accelerates the advancement of high-potential women across different regions and leverages the company’s strong foundation […]
The Coca-Cola Company – Global Women’s Initiative: Women as the Real Drivers of the 21st Century (Practices)
The Coca-Cola Company’s Global Women’s Initiative: Women as the Real Drivers of the 21st Century seeks to advance women internally and economically empower women externally. Initiated and driven by the […]
Good Intentions, Imperfect Execution? Women Get Fewer of the “Hot Jobs” Needed to Advance (Report)
This report examines the impact of leadership development—both formal programs and on-the-job experiences—on high potentials' career advancement.
The Promise of Future Leadership: A Research Program on Highly Talented Employees in the Pipeline
2009 – 2015 Catalyst’s longitudinal project, The Promise of Future Leadership: A Research Program on Highly Talented Employees in the Pipeline, followed the careers of graduates of leading business schools […]
GE Capital EMEA – Building a Pipeline of Women: Investing Within, Connecting Out (Practices)
GE’s diversity and inclusion strategy is centered on the notion that diversity is not solely a human resources issue—it is a business issue. Building upon GE’s long history of inclusion, […]
PepsiCo Mexico – Promoting Gender Equity and Women’s Leadership: Creating Inclusive Environments and Developing Female Talent (Practices)
PepsiCo Mexico’s mission of sustainability is termed “Desempeño con Sentido,” or “Performance with Purpose.” As part of this mission, the company is dedicated to respecting, contributing to, and supporting the […]