Challenges to Effective Recruitment

Dr. Sharon Fries-Britt

Associate Professor

AGENDA

Why diversity is important

Challenges to recruitment

Subjective/human challenges

Stopping the revolving door

Why diversity is important

Enables you to attract the best human talent

Enables you to reach and serve diverse markets

Higher creativity and innovation

Better problem solving & Organizational flexibility

Challenges to recruitment

Structural challenges (How we are organized to hired individuals)

Procedural challenges (How we proceed)

Subjective/human challenges (perceptions, attitudes and behaviors about people in the process)

Subjective/Human challenges

Recognizing bias and assumptions

Understanding our reactions to cultural characteristics (our own and others)

Perceptions + Prejudice + Power =judgment

Impact of Social/Cultural Capital

Stopping the revolving door

Dealing with the challenges of diversity

References

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