According to a recentZipRecruiter研究，有86％的求职者在寻找工作时一直在关注工作场所的多样性。但是，候选人并不是唯一重视工作场所多样性和包容性的人，您当前的员工也是如此。
If you want to foster a healthy, happy, and productive business environment, you need to focus on diversity and inclusion.
6 Ways to encourage diversity and inclusion in the workplace
First, let’s define diversity and inclusion. Diversity in the workplace is when you have employees with differences in things like background, gender, race, age, and religion. Inclusion in the workplace is the practice of cultivating a respectful and welcoming environment for all employees.
Take a look at six ways you can promote diversity and inclusion at work.
1. Create a fair hiring process
如果您想鼓励多样性和在工作场所的包容性，则必须从顶部开始 -hiring process.
乔•Caccavale内容营销人员atApplied, sheds some light on the problem of unconscious bias in the hiring process:
无意识的偏见通常会阻碍增加工作场所多样性的举措。雇主将根据人的性别，年龄，种族或阶级对一个人的能力做出隐含的假设。盲人招聘可以对抗这一问题，从而删除候选人的名字，性别和出生日期之类的信息，以确保重点放在他们的技能和优点上。”
Take a look at your current hiring process. Are you turning candidates away based on the questions you ask? There are certain questions you cannot ask during an interview because they could—intentionally or unintentionally—discriminate against job applicants.
从最初的工作申请到面试过程，您必须创建一个涵盖所有工作申请人的招聘过程。这样，您将避免拒绝申请人（并在此过程中打破歧视法）并促进多样化的工作场所。
2.进行薪酬审核
Another way to encourage diversity and inclusion in the workplace is to make sure you’re paying your employees fairly. You can do this by conducting apay audit.
A pay audit is an analysis of your employees’ pay in relation to factors like length of service, education, and performance evaluation scores. The purpose of a pay audit is to identify pay disparities.
So, what does a pay audit have to do with encouraging diversity and inclusion at work? In short, everything. You can’t expect to cultivate a culture of diversity if you have discriminatory pay practices.
而且，如果您确实发现您的工资比模棱两可的员工付出了低的工资，请准备好进行一些更改。
3. Provide equal opportunities
In addition to paying employees fairly, you also need to provide them equal opportunities. A diverse and inclusive environment thrives on having a range of people in various roles.
Every employee should have an equal opportunity to move up the career ladder. If you have a homogenous team of managers or other leaders, you may need to take another look.
确保所有员工都知道如何发展职业并发展自己的技能。不要为少数知名员工提供机会。
您可以给员工平等机会的另一种方式是满足他们的多样化需求。例如，您可能有一个需要的员工religious accommodation还有另一个需要合理的住宿的人。
4.以书面形式
只有一半以上的人（55％）agree that their organization has policies promoting diversity and inclusion. Does yours?
If you don’t have a policy outlining your business’s stance on equal opportunities, accommodations, and harassment, now’s the time.
Your policy on diversity- and inclusion-related topics shouldn’t be tucked away for nobody to see. Include a copy in youremployee handbook因此，所有员工都可以让您和彼此负责。
5.优先考虑培训
Of course, once you have policies and practices in place showing your dedication to diversity and inclusion, you should share it with your team in-person, too. You can do this by prioritizing orientation and training.
Orientation sessions should go over what you expect from new hires and what they should expect from you and their new co-workers.
Consider having regular training sessions so nobody forgets how to behave in the workplace. And, you can have emergency training sessions in response to incidents (e.g., harassment).
6. Take swift action
45％的美国工人said they experienced discrimination or harassment within the past 12 months. If this is going on in your workplace, take swift action to put an end to it.
同样，您可以举行全公司会议，讨论您期望员工采取行动。但是，您还需要与歧视或骚扰的受害者以及造成该问题的人一起采取行动。
根据问题的严重性，您可能需要重新解释业务政策，管理罢工，甚至终止造成问题的员工。
Whatever response is warranted, make sure to do something as soon as you catch wind of a situation.
