By Samachar Vishesh News
Chandigarh 22nd Aug:- Recruiting a diverse workforce and
forging an environment that promotes inclusion is the need of the hour. This
was stated by Leena Nandan, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Road Transport
and Highways, addressing the third edition of HR Crystal Ball organised by
Confederation of Indian Industry at New Delhi.
She stressed on not limiting the
responsibility of diversity & inclusion to HR function only. “She added
that the leadership in any sphere of life will have to lead by example and
companies who do not encourage diversity will find it difficult to grow as it
will kill newer ideas. She gave an example of diverse instruments striking the
right chord to produce beautiful music as an example of beauty of diversity.
Ranjan Kumar Mohapatra, Director–HR,
Indian Oil Corporation Ltd stressed on the need to move away from ‘Compliance
Requirement’ nature of D & I to business need. He gave several examples of
good practices from his company to underline the importance of diversity, be
it, race, ethnicity, orientation, gender, socio-economic, preferences,
anything. He shared that research shows the 3 types of diversities, namely Gender
Diversity, Diversity of Thought and Behavioural diversities, if handled well,
give maximum productivity.
S Y Siddiqui, Chairman, CII Northern
Region Committee on HR & IR and Executive Advisor, Maruti Suzuki India Ltd,
said that accepting and valuing all types of diversities and preferences should
be part of our DNA. Today, diversity is not a good to do thing but has become
business imperative. He also highlighted how diversity in multi-generational
workforce brings new challenges in terms of expectations from the company. A
diverse workforce is also more innovative workforce as it brings out newer
ideas.
P Dwarakanath, Chairman, GSK Consumer
Healthcare Ltd, said that accountability on D&I should be of top
management. The workforce down below should see the leadership leading by
example. The organizational culture is best developed when leadership walks the
talk.
S K Bose, Co-Chairman, CII Northern
Region Committee on HR & IR and Executive Director – HR, Indian Oil
Corporation Ltd shared story of an inspiring initiative wherein IOCL partnered
with Jail authorities in Hyderabad and got female inmates between the age group
of 20 to 80 to come together and man some of the IOCL petrol pumps and the
results have been promising.
A CII-KPMG report on ‘Diversity &
Inclusion at Workplace’ was also released as part of the conclave. Ms Vishalli
Dongrie, Partner and Head–People & Change Practice, KPMG India, briefed
about the study.
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