The war for talent especially puts pressure on management to embrace global diversity in the work force. Let's talk about the meaning of diversity for just a minute. When we talk about diversity, we're talking about the full compliment of what people are, whom they are. Their skills and background experience, ethnicity, and values. So that understanding about diversity becomes very important in even utilizing and leveraging diversity well.
Workers have more choices today.
They want to have a great relationship with their boss. They want to be valued and respected and they want to have really cool and exciting work to do. You've been quoted as saying that managers today don't have the time to know everything about everybody. The faces are always changing. One of the things that we encourage employers to do is to create dynamic databases that capture what we call a profile or portfolio of a person's skills, talent and experience.