HC 3 Flashcards
Managing diversity and diversity trainings
Why do we need diversity in our workplace? (4)
- to attract and attain Talent
- increase Creativity and problem solving
- avoid Litigation
- Women drive 70-80% of all consumer purchasing
Name the top 5 diversity practices that had the most positive impact on recruitment efforts
- Establish gender diversity recruitment targets
- Delivering diversity/ unconscious bias training to our interviewers
- Establish equality policies
- Actively focusing on having an inclusive talent brand
- Requiring mandatory diverse slates for open positions
Unconscious Bias
a misleading cognitive tendency that we are not aware of.
We think we are being fair, but in actual fact, we are making decisions, which may be unfair.
Glass Ceiling
Subtle attitudes and prejudices that block women and minorities from upward mobility, particularly into management jobs
Glass Cliff
Women are more likely than men to be placed in difficult leadership positions, where the likelihood of failure is high
Main 2 reasons for the gender pay gap are:
- Fewer women in Senior Leadership Positions
2. Fewer women working in Technical or Trading Roles that attract higher levels of pay
Evolutionary Perspective in Gender Differences
Unlike the case with men, women do not generally enhance their reproductive success by obtaining high-status and may in fact decrease it… (Browne, 1998).
Men more often than women exhibit traits like:
- aggressiveness,
- dominance-assertion,
- competitiveness,
- status-seeking,
- risk-taking.
Women more often than men exhibit:
- nurturing,
- caring,
- greater interest in building social relationship.
Gender socialization
The process by which the older generation passes to the next generation the capacities to behave in ways deemed appropriate for males and females.
The internalization of such behaviors, values, and norms are alter brought into the workforce (2)
(Gender socialization)
> Adding a competitive element to a task tends to enhance the performance of males, while it often has the opposite effect in females.
> Women are less likely to ‘blow their own horn’, and therefore are less likely to be recognized
Explain Gender Socialization through the way children are thought to play games
While boys are encouraged to be independent, dominant, and risk taking, girls are taught to be cooperative and agreeable.
It is not a deliberate exclusion of women but…
…a “second-generation” form of gender bias. This bias is powerful but subtle.
4 Corporate practices as barriers to the top
- Few female role models
- Existence of male networks & Lack of sponsors
- Training and career development targeted to men
- Tokenism in top management circles
> Many organizational structures and work practices were designed to fit men’s lives and situations at a time when women made up only a very small portion of the workforce.
Double Binds
A behavioral norm that creates a situation where a person cannot win no matter what she does.
“A woman making stern-looking facial movements must be angry or upset. A man who looks the same, on the other hand, is focusing on the important matters at hand.” Or as we summarized our discovery: “She’s a bitch, but he’s just having a bad day.”
