Recruiting, Selection & Retention: Diverse Qualities & Characteristics (PDF)

This tool helps team members move past initial impressions and assumptions and even beyond biases and filters to appreciate the qualities and characteristics brought to organizations by diverse team members. This reference explores possibilities and prevents pre-judging while giving others the benefit of the doubt and looking for the good in each individual and what each brings. The different qualities and characteristics include the following:

•  Gender
•  Culture/ethnicity
•  Disabled
•  Sexual orientation
•  Age
•  Race
•  Economic status
•  Education level

This tool enables those in human resources, training and development and management to help associates focus on the positives and opportunities presented by diverse team members. Organizations cannot put a price on the benefits, values and advantages of a diverse staff. But clear comparisons can be drawn between the success of organizations where diversity is a priority and flourishes in comparison to those organizations losing market share as they become increasingly irrelevant in a rapidly changing world.