Human Resources Practices
HR processes related to selection, performance appraisal, promotions and overall decision making should be revised (Sharma, 2016). Some procedures are identified according to reviews of the literature include, performance appraisals with multiple criteria are more equitable than performance appraisals with few criteria (Sharma, 2016), having multiple raters is fairer in gender than a single rater (Sharma, 2016) especially when the raters include members of diverse groups (Multhaup & Williams. 2017), appraisal audits should be frequent and done in the presence of the diversity office (Sharma, 2016), Having clear objective criteria in appraisal far from personality-based criteria (Clayton, Hellen, and Nielsen, 2009), People returning from paid-work gaps shouldn’t be penalized for their absence (including maternity leave) in their next performance appraisal (WHO, 2001), implementing flexible work environments such as working from home and flexible business hours which have been shown to enhance diversity as well as organizational effectiveness (Sharma, 2016; Hall and Parker, 1993), Revising the algorithms for use of AI in selection since it has been shown to disproportionately favor men over women (Tans, 2019), Outreach to universities and the creation of diverse hiring visits to meet with and potentially recruit qualified women since it’s been shown that the demand is high enough to recruit people straight out of college (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2020).