- Women in underrepresented position for senior leadership roles
At present times when a number of women in workplaces are getting hired, it seems just equality quota of male and female is trying to be met. Gender diversity can act as a significant key in bringing success to any company. Thus diversifying the roles of the top positions, especially the roles of executives, is necessary to level up the corporate field. It is like using the human resources in the best possible way to maximize the potentiality of the organizations.
Effective but underrepresented
There is a saying “if women would run the world there would have no wars”, there are certain things to be said regarding roles of women in the leadership positions. Moreover, according to reports that the more gender diversity is seen in a corporate sector, the more effective productivity can be seen in such areas, higher innovations, quality products, greater decision making and low turnovers leading to higher retentions of employees.
Despite all the benefits that are observed, the leadership position all over the world remains unbalanced, where the women are given only about a quarter of management position all across the world. The distinction is even greater when the position is for higher management in the global front. The Ledbetter group have revealed data where it was found that among 234 popular companies all across the world that have been researched on only have 14 CEO overall.
It would take time to change the scenario of inequality towards women and create more opportunities for them, especially for senior positions in management as leaders. But there are ways by which this can help combat the gender gap that exists in today’s society.
Promoting a welcoming culture for women
Creating an environment of more opportunities would only start with an environment that is welcoming towards women and is inclusive in nature. The certain efforts in recruiting women in top management positioning role would go useless if the organization does not support the idea.
For the leadership of women, there is a requirement of certain initiative steps as Anu Mandapati the founder of IMPACT where the main focus would be drawn on hiring the women based on their education qualification and experience in the market field, where the salaries would be offered to the women according to the market rate and not depending on the past records. This small changes would help in building a solid foundation for gender equality in different work fields. Thus it would create an environment where the women could also be equally given the right to leadership.
Again investing in companies that are diversity champions are also a great idea. Hence the business community would also be having an impact that is positive in bringing about equality for females by investing in companies that looks after the problem. Christine Alemany the CEO Trailblaze growth advisory says that it is not enough to depend on the men centric organizations to promote equality women should come forward to start their own business.
- Organizations can decrease the resistance to diversity by the actions
It is possible to reduce the resistance to change in the organization by the actions that are stated as follows- the actions would help in to minimize the change for better introduction to change.
Owning the Changes
It does not matter where the change has originated; a change can start from any position of an organization. A change can start from an employee himself or from each and everyone who works for the organization. Every employee is working in the organization to take charge of implementing changes where ever he feels the need to for the betterment of the organization. This can also be done by involving the employees altogether and stating about the changes and give each one a role to perform to bring about the changes.
Get over it
If the employee gets the opportunity to discuss the changes that he has thought about to his other coworkers and seniors, it is important to present the idea with relevant data and examples so that the other is able to understand and find logic in the recommendation. One the decision from the presentation is made, it is better to get over it. The decision can be in the favour or against, but one needs to go along with the organization, group or team. So the employee must do everything necessary to make the direction selected succeeded.
Minimize resistance
If in an organization, the employees think that the management system and leaders are honest, trustworthy and loyal to its employees, then the employees quickly adapt and accept the changes in the organization. So here, the relationship that has been built with the employees over the years would play a bigger role in implementing those changes into the system of organization.
Communicate the change
Starting from the senior managers to the junior employees, all should be aware of the change that is to be adopted. Making proper communicating and letting all the members of the organization know about why the changes are being initiated, what betterment it would bring and the current mission of the organization should be communicated to get corporation and support from every employee to initiate the change. How the communication is delivered to the employees also plays a vital role in influencing and convincing them for the change. If an environment where it is a belief that change is required one of the key aspects would be discussing the changes, specifically letting the employees know what the group hence organization can and cannot affect. Clear any queries that may arise in the minds of the employees who are used to their old ways be doing things.
A good management team with a well-planned strategy are able to bring about drastic changes in an organization for better performance and effective productivity.