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).