Transcript Challenges to Effective Recruitment

Challenges to
Effective Recruitment
Dr. Sharon Fries-Britt
Associate Professor
AGENDA
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Why diversity is important
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Challenges to recruitment
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Subjective/human challenges
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Stopping the revolving door
Why diversity is important
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Enables you to attract the best human talent
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Enables you to reach and serve diverse
markets
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Higher creativity and innovation
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Better problem solving & Organizational
flexibility
Challenges to recruitment
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Structural challenges (How we are organized
to hired individuals)
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Procedural challenges (How we proceed)
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Subjective/human challenges (perceptions,
attitudes and behaviors about people in the
process)
Subjective/Human challenges
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Recognizing bias and assumptions
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Understanding our reactions to cultural
characteristics (our own and others)
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Perceptions + Prejudice + Power =judgment
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Impact of Social/Cultural Capital
Stopping the revolving door
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Dealing with the challenges of diversity
References
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Taylor Cox (1993) Cultural Diversity in
Organizations Theory, Research and
Practice.
Gary Orfield & Michael Kurlaender (2001)
Diversity Challenged.
Caroline Sotello and Viernes Turner, (2002)
Diversifying the Faculty, A Guidebook for
Search Committees