An Organization Of Values Diversity - 1656 Words

An organisation that values diversity will gain a positive reputation, the way it’s seen by potential employees and organisations. Valuing diversity can attract candidates it shows an organisation practises employment discrimination; in line with the Equality Act 2010 protecting employees against discrimination, race, age, gender, ethnicity, disability, religion or sexuality. If a company wishes to expand worldwide, a diverse workforce can improve communication between countries that they may wish to work with, resulting in higher sales and profits. Diversity gives employees a deeper understanding of different cultures enabling them to adapt accordingly. Diversity increases productivity, when a diverse team working towards a particular†¦show more content†¦External factors that could affect talent planning are factors such as recession, to ensure an organisation continues to run efficiently and effectively during the recession, an organisation may introduce a recruitment freeze, meaning that employers may use current employees for roles they are not necessarily experienced in, resulting in an employee feeling overloaded causing employees to seek further employment. How a company is portrayed by the media can affect talent planning, attracting candidates can become difficult due to people not wanting to work in an industry that is exposed to bad media and publicity, meaning that an organisation cannot attract the right candidates or result in employees wanting to leave. An internal factor could be budget, recruitment department could have to re-evaluate the current advertisement methods used to recruit and choose a more cost effective method. Another internal factor may be staff turnover; it may be that an organisation needs to focus on the requirements and moral of their staff to ensure they are content; this would then lower the staff turnover figure resulting in lower costs of recruitment. There are many benefits as well as disadvantages from using social media/networking as a form of recruitment methods for organisations.