Why Blend In When You Can Stand Out?

Book excerpt: WHO ARE YOU? What makes you so uniquely you? What defines you? Is it your gender, your sexual orientation, your choice of cloths, your work preference or your thought process? Whichever way you define yourself, becomes your identity. Based on the choices, there can be more than 1,00,000 different permutation & combination of identities! This book is a step-by-step guide that will help your organization to become more diverse and inclusive. It details out more than 500 best practices that will make it easy for your organization to integrate diversity with each stage of the employee life cycle and to integrate inclusion with each stage of the business value chain & culture. The book consists of a self-help toolkit based on state-of-the-art Next Gen Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) Maturity Model that will help you profile your organization's 'As-Is' maturity state and suggest steps to systematically lead it to its desired state. Besides the business/HR/D&I practitioners, this book will be immensely useful to the HR students who want to understand key concepts of Diversity & Inclusion, their application.