"It's time to change our workplace practices if we want to reap the benefits of diversity." Many New Zealand organisations have embraced staff diversity in terms of gender, age, religion, sexuality, ethnicity, disability, and education for organisational success. • Encourage flexibilityFlexible work practices provide staff with the opportunity to balance work with personal commitments. Creating effective flexible working practices improves productivity, and allows staff with personal commitments to progress their careers towards promotion. Tracking diversity works best if it is championed by the CEO at board level, with accountability of diversity metrics.

Source: New Zealand Herald June 21, 2017 02:03 UTC