Why is participation in employee-resource groups crucial to your diversity-management success Fair360, formerly DiversityInc Top 50 data, coupled with results from individual corporate research, finds that companies with high employee-resource-group participation report higher overall job performance and engagement as well as enhanced results in recruiting, retaining and promoting people from traditionally underrepresented groups. There also are increasing marketplace benefits.
Participation in employee-resource groups is on the rise: The percentage of employees belonging to these groups in the Fair360, formerly DiversityInc Top 50 has grown to 23 percent from 11 percent in 2005.
In the 1,414-word article Increasing Participation in Employee-Resource Groups, diversity leaders share their strategies to increase ERG participation and executive involvement.