{"id":1295,"date":"2018-04-05T12:01:28","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T12:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genashtim.sg\/ecornell\/newsletter-v2\/?p=1295"},"modified":"2025-09-22T12:03:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T12:03:13","slug":"diversity-inclusiveness-drives-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genashtim.sg\/ecornell\/newsletter-v2\/index.php\/2018\/04\/05\/diversity-inclusiveness-drives-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Diversity &#038; Inclusiveness \u2013 Drives Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2017\/08\/what-11-ceos-have-learned-about-championing-diversity?autocomplete=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Harvard Business Review<\/a>: The business case for diversity is clear. Diversity can boost <a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2013\/12\/how-diversity-can-drive-innovation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">innovation<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diversityinc.com\/diversity-management\/how-diversity-and-inclusion-drives-employee-engagement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">employee engagement<\/a>, and companies with greater gender and racial diversity <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mckinsey.com\/business-functions\/organization\/our-insights\/why-diversity-matters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">financially outperform<\/a> their peers. Yet progress within organizations has been slow \u2013 there is still a lack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/issues\/women\/reports\/2017\/05\/21\/432758\/womens-leadership-gap\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">women<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/fortune.com\/2016\/03\/30\/charts-minority-women-leaders\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">minorities<\/a> in leadership positions, and certain industries like tech and <a href=\"https:\/\/nonprofitquarterly.org\/2017\/06\/20\/asset-management-still-boys-not-girls-run-world\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">finance<\/a> are lacking diversity at all levels. And many diversity programs <a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2016\/07\/why-diversity-programs-fail\">fail<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Cornell University last month unveiled its Diversity and Inclusiveness Certificates, one targeted at leaders <a href=\"https:\/\/genashtim.sg\/ecornell\/courses-certificate\/?course=Diversity%2C-Equity%2C-and-Inclusion-%28ILRDIC01%29&amp;cs=6&amp;id=90\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>(Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion)<\/strong><\/a> and the other at human resource professionals <a href=\"https:\/\/genashtim.sg\/ecornell\/courses-certificate\/?course=Diversity%2C-Equity%2C-and-Inclusion-for-HR-%28ILRHRC11%29&amp;cs=5&amp;id=89\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>(Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for HR)<\/strong><\/a>. With the launch of this new program, Genashtim is offering a <strong>40% discount<\/strong> for the month of April 2018, at US$2,160 for each certificate.Please click <strong>here<\/strong>\u00a0to register, and do indicate the promotion code \u201c<strong>DIVERSITY40FF\u201d<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvard Business Review: The business case for diversity is clear. Diversity can boost innovation and employee engagement, and companies with greater gender and racial diversity financially outperform their peers. Yet progress within organizations has been slow \u2013 there is still a lack of women and minorities in leadership positions, and certain industries like tech and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-april-2018-issue"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genashtim.sg\/ecornell\/newsletter-v2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genashtim.sg\/ecornell\/newsletter-v2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genashtim.sg\/ecornell\/newsletter-v2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genashtim.sg\/ecornell\/newsletter-v2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genashtim.sg\/ecornell\/newsletter-v2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1295"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/genashtim.sg\/ecornell\/newsletter-v2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1299,"href":"https:\/\/genashtim.sg\/ecornell\/newsletter-v2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions\/1299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genashtim.sg\/ecornell\/newsletter-v2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genashtim.sg\/ecornell\/newsletter-v2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genashtim.sg\/ecornell\/newsletter-v2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genashtim.sg\/ecornell\/newsletter-v2\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}