Global Benchmarks for Diversity and Inclusion

The inclusion practitioner responded, Your goals. Your starting point. Challenges. Your culture. Size of your organization. Sector you are in. Like that. One size does not fit all  

His query set me on a course of study and practice that resulted in Alan Richter and me, along with seventy-nine expert panelists, publishing Global Diversity and Inclusion Benchmarks Standards for 

This chapter describes the benchmarks, also called standards or outcomes, that can be selected to achieve an inclusion initiative. Benchmarks help people in organizations describe results or aspirations. In a new field like diversity and inclusion, it is important to develop benchmarks to help people know what is considered excellent work. Without benchmarks (or standards or outcomes), there can be a great disparity of opinion over what constitutes quality work. 

One way to use GDIB is to first set a target for the outcomes you want to achieve—potentially the best-practice level for most of the thirteen GDIB categories of diversity and inclusion work 

The GDIB tool can be found on the Internet via a search under its name and the name of the authors. You can download and use it, free of charge. The authors simply require that you ask our permission this is readily granted, with the agreement that you keep us posted on how you have used the benchmarks. 

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Global Benchmarks for Diversity and Inclusion 421 Figure 14.1. GDIB Model... 

O Mara, J., Richter, A., et al. (2011). Global diversity and inclusion benchmarks Standards for organizations around the world. O Mara 8c Associates and QED Consulting. Retrieved from http //www.omaraassoc. com/pdf/GDIB 2011.pdf... 

Source Global Diversity and Inclusion Benchmarks Standards for Organizations Around the World, by J. O Mara and A. Richter, 2011, p. 31. Copyright 2011 hy Julie O Mara and Alan Richter. Reprinted with permission. 

Source Adapted from Global Diversity and Inclusion Benchmarks Standards for... 

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