Challenges to Effective Recruitment

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Challenges to Effective Recruitment

• Dr. Sharon Fries-Britt
• Associate Professor

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AGENDA

• Why diversity is important
• Challenges to recruitment
• Subjective/human challenges
• Stopping the revolving door

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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

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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)

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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

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Stopping the revolving door

• Dealing with the challenges of diversity

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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