Diversity, inclusion and the workplace-equality index: the ingredients for organizational success

Abstract

Purpose

Presents organizations with issues to consider regarding inclusion and its importance as well as a well-established index that companies can join in order to make sure that equality is not a mere policy but that it counts in reality in every organization.

Design/methodology/approach

Describes the power that an organization can derive from deliberately nurturing and integrating heterogeneous groups of people so that they fit together.

Findings

Explains that the best way for an organization to succeed is to combine employee knowledge, skills, judgment and attitudes, alongside fair treatment.

Practical implications

Provides details of an index that aims to measure the efforts of organizations to tackle discrimination and create an inclusive workplace for lesbian, gay and bisexual employees.

Social implications

Reveals that the method of the index should allow organizations already successfully implementing diversity strategies acknowledgement while, at the same time, providing inspiration to those beginning to tackle diversity.

Originality/value

Demonstrates that diversifying the workforce must be accompanied by inclusivity and equality in order to triumph.

Citation

Sposato, M., Feeke, S., Anderson-Walsh, P. and Spencer, L. (2015), "Diversity, inclusion and the workplace-equality index: the ingredients for organizational success", Human Resource Management International Digest, Vol. 23 No. 5, pp. 16-17. https://doi.org/10.1108/HRMID-05-2015-0085