The Importance Of Building An Inclusive Company Culture

Company culture plays a vital role in long-term organizational success. To name just a few benefits, a well-thought-out company culture can help you stand out against competitors and increases employee retention.

Company heads need to grapple with their urge to control or direct their companies’ culture—it needs to evolve and develop on its own.

Company heads can, however, promote certain ideas and values. Just like any external and internal factor that affects culture—traditions and norms in society, the type of people you hire, etc.—you can make your own contributions.

For instance, an inclusive environment that welcomes, employs, and listens to people from all backgrounds, regardless of their gender, race, or disability.

When we work toward an inclusive environment, we ensure that the workforce is diverse. We also ensure that we don’t oppress an already systematically oppressed group of people.

The following are some ways to create an inclusive company culture:

Understanding Generational Definitions Of Diversity And Inclusion

Older employees may define diversity along the lines of race, ethnicity, and gender. However, a younger employee will have a more dynamic definition of inclusion and diversity.

In addition to age, gender, ethnicity, and race as core components of an inclusive culture, they’d also want you to consider the cognitive aspects of an individual’s experiences and perspectives.

The younger generation understands inclusion as a fundamental way of acknowledging various demographics, social identities, sexualities, and mental and physical disabilities.

Recruit Without Any Bias

It’s important to be mindful of your biases during talent acquisition. Regardless of how empathetic and considerate of you are, your conditioned biases will creep in—consciously or unconsciously.

Hence, when you’re recruiting, you need to look at a potential candidate as a dynamic individual—independent of what you perceive to be inherent flaws.

If their ‘shortcomings’—or aspects of their personality you aren’t comfortable with—aren’t going to affect the kind of value they bring, it shouldn’t matter to you as an employer.

Conduct Inclusion Training

A huge part of developing an inclusive work environment is acknowledging the uncomfortable silences around certain taboo topics, and addressing them in an effective manner.

To diversity better, you need to conduct inclusion training sessions where you guide your employees on how to become more empathetic, considerate, and mindful of the people around them.

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Sources:

https://www.peoplescout.com/insights/inclusive-culture-in-the-workplace/#:~:text=An%20Inclusive%20Culture%20Enables%20a%20Diverse%20Workplace%20to%20Thrive&text=Inclusion%20refers%20to%20a%20cultural,array%20of%20perspectives%20and%20experiences.

https://www.businessnewsdaily.com/10055-create-inclusive-workplace-culture.html