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SKILLED AUSTRALIA
Reducing the Barriers to Workforce Participation & Diversity
1 July 2014
Lisa Annese Chief Executive Officer
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CREATING & ENGAGING DIVERSITY AN AGENDA
1. Setting the Scene for Diversity 1. What do we mean?
2. The Business Case
2. Moving beyond ‘The Usual Suspects’ ! What to do and what not to do
! Case studies
DCA’s evidence base
! DCA research and latest global research
! Our expert panel of business and academic leaders
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WHAT IS DIVERSITY? DIMENSIONS OF DIVERSITY
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My Identity
Gender Ethnicity, culture &
faith
Caring responsibility
Flexible work
Person with a Disability Indigeneity
Sexual orientation
Age & Generation
Skills & experiences
SETTING THE SCENE DIVERSITY INTEREST FUELLED BY: ! Workplace flexibility: Paid parental leave, Right to Request
! Women in leadership: ASX, international interest in/move to quotas
! Pay equity: little improvement in past 20 years
! Mature-age workers: Age Disc.Comissioner, retirement, superannuation
! Disability: National Disability Insurance Scheme
! LGBT: Public debate re same-sex marriage, High profile work (Stonewall)
! Indigenous: Closing the gap, Employment covenant, Constitutional reform
! Cultural Diversity: Debate about racism & multiculturalism, increased global diversification, Copyright © 2014 Diversity
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THE BUSINESS CASE FROM COMPLIANCE TO COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE
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! Australian unit of Autoliv: Introduced flexible work and reduced staff turnover to under 2%, saved $3.6M/year
! AMP: $400M ROI on work-life initiatives over 5 years. Increased return to work rate from 50% to 90%, saving $50,000 to $150,000 per woman returned.
! Top 50 diversity companies in US outperformed S&P 500 by 25% and NASDAQ by 28% (Baue)
! In Australia, ASX 500 companies with Board gender diversity delivered average ROE over 5 years 9% higher than those with no female directors (Reibey Institute, 2011)
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SETTING THE SCENE WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP
– Positive trends ASX 200 boards…
AICD, 2014
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WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP WGEA CENSUS 2012
! Women hold 9.7% of executive key management personnel (executive KMP) positions in the ASX 200, up from 8.0% in 2010.
! Women hold 9.2% of executive KMP positions in the ASX 500.
! Percentage of ASX 200 companies with at least one female executive KMP increased to 39.4% in 2012, up from 38.1% in 2010 (3.4% increase on 2010).
! There are seven female CEOs in the ASX 200 (compared to six in 2010).
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MOVING BEYOND THE USUAL SUSPECTS:
Your Top 3 do’s & don’ts
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MOVING BEYOND THE USUAL SUSPECTS:
DCA’s Top 4 don’ts
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WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP: DCA TOP 4 DON’TS
1. Pipeline theory…“Just give it time. Not yet, but soon.”
– Pipeline is slow
! At current rates of change, it will take till 2173 to reach gender balance (Hede & O’Brien, 1996)
‒ Pipeline works better for men
! Tracking high potential MBA graduates, from first role onwards, women lag men in promotion, pay & career satisfaction (Carter & Silva, 2010)
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WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP: DCA TOP 4 DON’TS 2. Gender blind initiatives
! Formal talent management initiatives that ignore gender
– e.g. recruitment policy, leadership development program etc.
! Linked to lower representation of women in workforce
(French, 2001; Konrad & Linnehan, 1999)
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WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP: DCA TOP 4 DON’TS 3. Promoting meritocracy
! Results in gender biased decisions, and more negative performance ratings and pay outcomes for women (Castilla & Benard, 2010)
! Managers favour male employees over equally qualified female employees
! Ironically women have to demonstrate relatively greater performance
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WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP: DCA TOP 4 DON’TS
4. Getting women to ‘lean in’
! Women need to ‘lean in’, ambitiously look for and grab new opportunities!
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MOVING BEYOND THE USUAL SUSPECTS:
So what does work?
DCA’s Top 3 do’s
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WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP: DCA TOP 3 DO’S
1. Gender conscious initiatives
! Talent management initiatives which acknowledge gender:
‒ Targeted recruitment, women’s leadership development programs, ERGs, sponsorship programs etc.
! Linked to better women’s representation in organisations (French, 2001; Konrad & French, 1999)
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WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP: DCA TOP 3 DO’S
2. Sponsorship (gender conscious)
! Sponsorship predicts women’s advancement, having mentors doesn’t
‒ High potential women are “mentored to death,” over-mentored and under-sponsored relative to male peers (Carter & Silva, 2010)
‒ Beyond giving feedback and advice, to using their influence with senior executives to advocate for mentee
! Sponsorship works because:
‒ Women can be penalized for self-promoting behaviour, considered acceptable in men
‒ Sponsors speak up for talented employees, helping women subvert this double bind
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WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP: DCA TOP 3 DO’S
3. Address bias (gender conscious)
! Gender bias in recruitment, network access, career development, promotion, remuneration well established (Kulik & Bainbridge, 2006)
! Conscious & unconscious bias
! Individual & organisational bias
‒ Individual: Attitudes, Behaviours, Interactions, Decisions
‒ Organisational: Culture, Talent Management Policy & Practice
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BEST PRACTICE CASE STUDY - CBA
! Winner of prestigious Catalyst Award in March 2012
! “Opening the Door for Gender Diversity” Initiative
! CBA was first Australian financial services organisation to set public targets for women in leadership
! Target to increase proportion of Executive Manager & above roles held by women to 35% by 2014
! CBA has 52,000 employees – 61% are women
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BEST PRACTICE CASE STUDY – Why is it best practice? ! Diversity strategy integrated with business strategy
! CEO & Exec Committee commitment and leadership
! Transparent & measureable targets
! Culture of flexibility
! Unconscious bias training for all senior leaders
! Embedded into talent management & talent development
! Sponsorship of women & mentoring
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BEST PRACTICE CASE STUDY – MEASUREABLE IMPACT
! Increase in employees working flexibly from 35% (2008) to 41% (2011)
! 36% of employees working flexibly are men (2011)
! Increase in proportion of Executive Manager & above roles held by women from 21% (2005) to 30% (2011)
! Increase in percentage of women on the board from 20% to 27% (2011)
! Women’s engagement scores were above world’s best practice levels in 3 out of last 4 years
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WHERE TO BEGIN? TIPS FOR LEADERS – DCA experience about leading diversity practice:
! Initiatives aligned with business and people priorities
! Executive and line manager engagement (active vs ‘cheque book’ involvement)
! Leveraging off pockets of ‘good will’
! Evaluation, benchmarking, high-level scorecard reporting
! Identity conscious’ (vs identity blind) initiatives
! Talent decisions need to be driven by workforce data and analytics or organisations risk falling behind the curve and losing their competitive edge (Deloitte 2011, Human capital trends 2011: Revolution/evolution).
! Familiarise yourself with Australian diversity research and thought leadership
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THANKS FOR YOUR TIME: ANY QUESTIONS?
– Diversity Council Australia: Your partner in creating the workplace of the future
! www.dca.org.au
! Advice and strategy
! Web-site info (e.g. case studies, tools, leading practice)
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