Does a person’s name, appearance, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, or the way they express themselves affect their “fit” within your company? Whether we like it or not, every person in the human resources department has unconscious bias.
In fact, to have an unconscious bias you don’t even need to look down at any particular type of person, all it takes is getting along better with certain people than with others.
If you have long-standing problems that your company can’t seem to get past, you may be able to break through them with new people with different perspectives. Fresh, new perspectives from a diverse range of qualified employees shake things up and turn on the “innovation engine”.
One day, your diverse employee base may save you from making a business-killing decision.
