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
Women and Men in Canadian Capital Markets: An Action Plan for Gender Diversity (Report)
This report finds that women continue to struggle to break through the senior leadership ranks in Canadian Capital Markets.
Standard Chartered – Global Strategies for Women’s Leadership & Economic Empowerment (Practices)
Long dedicated to women and diversity across the globe, and conscious of the growing global awareness of the multiplier effect,…
McKinsey & Company – Global LGBT Inclusion (Practices)
As a management consulting firm, McKinsey relies on the knowledge and skills of its employees, and prides itself on attracting…
ALLETE, Inc. – Recruitment Practices and Board Culture: Prioritizing Qualifications and Fostering Inclusion to Increase Gender Balance (Practices)
At a time when women's board representation in Fortune 500 companies is just over 16 percent, and in an industry…
Commonwealth Bank of Australia – Opening the Door for Gender Diversity (Practices)
Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA)'s initiative, Opening the Door for Gender Diversity, seeks to increase the number of women in…
Sodexo – Making Every Day Count: Driving Business Success Through the Employee Experience (Practices)
Sodexo's initiative, Making Every Day Count: Driving Business Success Through the Employee Experience, is a systemic strategy to provide the…
Navigating Organizational Cultures: A Guide for Diverse Women and Their Managers (Report)
Diversity and inclusion programs have been in place in organizations for some time, these programs have not been completely successful at eliminating bias.
BSR and Levi Strauss Foundation – HERproject: Health Enables Returns Workplace Program for Women (Practices)
The Levi Strauss Foundation and BSR launched the Health Enables Returns Workplace Program for Women, or HERproject, in 2007. The…
The Myth of the Ideal Worker: Does Doing All the Right Things Really Get Women Ahead? (Report)
This report includes a series of questions for the reader to reflect about why disparities in career advancement may persist.
Checking the Pulse of Women in Bioscience: What Organizations Need to Know (Report)
Most organizations in bioscience are not maximizing their talent pool.
Citi – Women Leading Citi (Practices)
Women Leading Citi is a firm-wide, targeted effort to support high-performance women participants who possess the potential to move into…
HSBC India – Flexible Work Arrangements (Practices)
With competition to recruit and retain talented employees increasing daily, strong talent retention strategies are critical. That, together with its…
Aditya Birla Group (ABG) – Talent Management and Leadership Development (Practices)
ABG launched formal, company-wide talent management processes in November 2003 to introduce a set of uniform practices across all its…
Building Trust Between Managers & Diverse Women Direct Reports: Recommendations for HR, Managers, and Individuals (Tool)
This tool can help you leverage diverse working relationships within your organization.
Visiting Nurse Service of New York – Diversity and Inclusion in Community-Based Healthcare (Practices)
Because Visiting Nurse Service of New York (VNSNY) has a highly diverse clientele, the organization understands that promoting cultural awareness,…
Building Trust Between Managers and Diverse Women Direct Reports (Report)
Trust between managers and direct reports is essential to forming productive workplace relationships.
Time Warner Inc. – Creating a Unified Culture: Investing in Our Women Leaders (Practices)
After a highly publicized merger with AOL in 2000, Time Warner Inc. leaders committed to rebuilding and unifying the company…
McDonald’s Corporation – Freedom Within a Framework: Global Women’s Initiative (Practices)
At McDonald's Corporation, a strong commitment to inclusion is embedded in the business plan and corporate values. This perspective led…
Unwritten Rules: Why Doing a Good Job Might Not Be Enough Europe (Report)
This report examines Europeans' perceptions of unwritten rules as well as how they learned to navigate these rules.
Sara Lee Corporation – Recruiting and Retaining Top Talent With Returnships (Practices)
Sara Lee's Returnship program was launched in 2009 as part of an initiative to attract and retain mid-level career professionals…