Recruiting a More Diverse Workforce

• Recruiting Women

  Cons: Carry the heavier burden of child-rearing
• Recruiting Single Parents

  Cons:

  Being a single parent isn’t easy, and recruiting and keeping them requires understanding the problems they face

  Sol’n:

  Many firms have flextime programs that provide employees some schedule flexibility
• Older Workers

  Pros:

  • Lower absenteeism rates,
  • More reliability,
  • Better work habits than younger workers
• Recruiting Minorities

  Applicants sometimes lack basic work skills

  • such as reporting for work on time,
  • working in teams,
  • taking orders.
• The key to welfare-to-work seems to be the employer’s pretraining program.

  • Here, participants get counseling and basic skills training over several weeks.
• The Disabled

  • Employees with disabilities are capable workers