The Three Benefits Of Diversity To Google And Promoting Diversity At The Workplace

Benefits of Diversity to Google

The three benefits of diversity to Google 

Enhance the brand name and goodwill globally – Diversity benefits Google as Google is well reputed globally in terms of it’s globally its diverse and inclusive culture. It provides the competitive advantages to Google in business world, diversity and inclusion ads to the goodwill of Google.  

Improves company culture – Diversity and inclusion helped Google towards the better company culture, it helped in establishing the ethical parameters and better work environment in the organization which provide trust factor in the employees and motivates them towards attaining the common goals and success of the organization.

Improves creativity and innovation – Diversity enhanced the creativity and innovation in the organization, as the diverse workforce are from different background and origin brings up with different and innovative ideas (Talentlyft, 2022).

Promoting diversity at workplace or within the business

Diversifying the hiring and recruiting process – Revising the job description in order to promote more gender equality approach in the recruitment and hiring process of the company. Promoting the existing diverse workforce in order to visualize the same. Expanding the recruiting network by including the cultural and diverse focused communities

Appreciating team members – Appreciating and highlighting the accomplishment and what team members are doing through the newsletter and blogs of the company or sharing photos and videos of events and cultural days in the organization, it will increase the belief of employees in the organization on how company respect and trust them (Reynolds, 2017).

Promoting cultural events and activities – Organizing diversity activities in the organization so that team members from different culture and country are able to interact and communicate with one another. Organizing event on the honour of certain traditional Day where employees can share food and beverages of that culture.

Name of team member	Gender	Background	Qualification
Alina baraz	Female	American	Masters in business
Raymond Michel	Male	Black American	Masters in tech
Fardoz mohamad	Male	Asian	Accounting graduate

Organization policies and procedures related to diversity in Google

• Supporting the black community at Google – the black Google r network is an employee group in Google focuses on cultivate black leaders at Google, empowering the communities in order to establish and reflect diversity in the tech industry.
• Connecting employees of Google  affected by disability – The employees in Google  suffering or effected by any disability, learning difference and special needs are treated with respect and equally and provided advice, advocacy and awareness at workplace(Cloud.google, 2019).    
• Advocating for transgender, transsexual, gender queer, gender fluid, gender variant, intersex, non-binary & questioning employees – At Google policies and procedures of the company ensure inclusion of all the gender identities and expressions.
• Advocating for gender equity – Women at Google is dedicated to empowering women at workplace by connecting, developing and retaining female talent at Google by providing them equal opportunities and development(Lyons, 2021).

The diversity report of Google shows the Lack of diversity in the organization, the report suggests that only 30 per cent of the staff of the organization is women staff in Google. As per the company’s US workforce search it highlights the percentage of staff in Google  61% of the staff are white people, 30% of Asians, 3% of Hispanic and only 2% of black people are working in Google . From around past 10 years the female chief technology officer at Google is 14% and never changed (Theguardian, 2022).

Opportunities bring by the inclusion engagement in the team at Google

Promoting Diversity at the Workplace

Growing culture – The first opportunity  bought to the team by the inclusion is that it helps in growing the culture as the culture of the workplace have become innovative with the help of diverse and different cultural ideas and creativity within the organization. In the inclusion workforce the culture encourages new growth and diverse styles of thinking and innovation in the workplace. Hence inclusion will help in growing the culture and innovation in Google.  

New knowledge – Inclusion adds the new knowledge to the organization and team, by hiring and including diverse and inclusive employees. It helps the organization to bring the ocean of knowledge from every culture and every corner of the world into the workplace. New or community based point of view and ideas helps the organization in overcoming the challenges and provides the new and innovative ideas to the organization.

Increased production – Great diversity and inclusion help increasing the production of organization, many employees from different backgrounds share their ideas and perspective. The diversity and inclusion in the culture give the feeling of acceptance and motivation to the employees to work as a team towards the mutual goals and increasing the productivity of the organization which leads to the overall success and effectiveness in the company (Hirelevel, 2018).

Part – B

Google LLC is an American based multinational company that provide the product and services such as search engine, online advertising technologies, cloud computing, software, and hardware. It is considered one of the top five information technology companies along with Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft. The alphabet is the parent company of Google INC.

The major purpose of the workplan of inclusion is to provide actionable plan in order to describe how business action will be taken including the people and diverse backgrounds in the organization. It provides the pre-determined action plans which enable to follow the plan and attaining the goals and fulfilling the purposes of the plan.

Reason of importance of Diversity and inclusion in google is that it enhances the viewpoint of the employees by proving that google values the diversity and inclusion which motivate them and eventually increase the productivity by and efficiency of employees. It also adds to the goodwill of the company as it promotes the equality and inclusion globally among employees.

Initiative	What? (Strategies or processes to address each initiative)	How? (Detailed actions to implement the strategies and processes)	Who?  (The relevant stakeholders that need to be involved or consulted)	When?  (Due date of each action)	Success Measurement Factors (The factors used to monitor the achievement of diversity goals)
Providing guidance and support	Learning and training	Through organizing meetings and training sessions	It involves diverse group of employees, trainer and managers	Within next six months	Enhanced diversity and acceptance in the organization

Initiative	What? (Strategies or processes to address each initiative)	How? (Detailed actions to implement the strategies and processes)	Who?  (The relevant stakeholders that need to be involved or consulted)	When?  (Due date of each action)	Success Measurement Factors (The factors used to monitor the achievement of diversity goals)
Raising awareness	Communication	By interacting with employees	Employees and managers	Within next one year	Increased awareness and receiving feedbacks

Topic -1 providing guidance and support – Using strategies such as learning and training in order to include diversity. Using the legislations such as; Age discrimination act 2004. Organizing orientation and training sessions regularly for enhancing diversity among employees. Management and communication methods for enhancing diversity such feedbacks, general meetings. External stakeholders can be consulted are trainer and diversity awareness agencies and internal stakeholders such as managers and top management (employsure, 2022).

Topic – 2 raising awareness – raising awareness with the help of communication, using relevant legislation and policies such as racial discrimination act 1975. Organizing parties and events to provide opportunity to communicate, Sharing culture and food with each other. External and internal stakeholders can be top management and human resource department

Topic -3 Building skills and capacity – Building skills and capacity with the help of motivation, the relevant legislation can be used is “The fair work act 2009”. In order to enhance diversity employees from every community groups and cultural background should be motivated. The stakeholders will be employees, manager, and human resource management and policy makers.

Topic – 4 Building evidence and tracking progress – building evidence and tracking progress by receiving feedbacks from employees from different cultural groups, legislation can be used are anti – discrimination act 1977. Stakeholders can be employees, managers, employee union and technological elements used for analysing feedbacks (www..gov.au, 2015).

References

Cloud.google. (2019). Introduction to the Organization Policy Service . Retrieved from cloud.google: https://cloud.google.com/resource-manager/docs/organization-policy/overview#:~:text=Organization%20policies%20are%20made%20up,location%20of%20newly%20created%20resources.

employsure. (2022). Equal Employment Opportunity And Diversity. Retrieved from employsure: https://employsure.com.au/guides/employment-contracts-and-legislation/equal-employment-opportunity-and-diversity/

Hirelevel. (2018). 5 Benefits of Creating Inclusion in the Workplace. Retrieved from hirelevel: https://hirelevel.com/2018/07/26/5-benefits-of-creating-inclusion-in-the-workplace/

Lyons, K. (2021). Google’s latest diversity report shows jump in departures among women of color. Retrieved from theverge: https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/2/22560628/google-diversity-report-departures-black-women

Reynolds, K. (2017). 5 Strategies for Promoting Diversity in the Workplace. Retrieved from hult.edu: https://www.hult.edu/blog/promoting-diversity-in-workplace/

Talentlyft. (2022). Top 10 Benefits of Diversity in the Workplace. Retrieved from talentlyft: https://www.talentlyft.com/en/blog/article/244/top-10-benefits-of-diversity-in-the-workplace

Theguardian. (2022). Google employs just 30% women and 2% black people, report shows. Retrieved from theguardian: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/may/29/google-diversity-women-black-people

www..gov.au. (2015). Diversity Inclusion Framework. Retrieved from www..gov.au: https://www..gov.au/policies-strategies/policy/workplace-diversity-program