Tech companies have often borne the brunt of diversity champions. As a result, too often in order to please this lobby, such companies have used data- driven business analytics to ensure a greater diversified talent pool. A number of these initiatives can get awry thanks to the presence of a small sample of numbers to work with. Some steps have been identified which these tech companies must work on, to solve this conundrum. For a start, one needs to make claims with whatever sample sizes are available. One needs to dig deeper within this data set. Managers need to be deeply involved in it. The talent recruitment process must not however fade away, simply to the presence of some numbers. One needs to up the sample sizes eventually.

Source:https://hbr.org/2019/04/the-mistake-companies-make-when-they-use-data-to-plan-diversity-efforts?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=hbr

Uploaded Date:26 June 2019