How businesses successfully promote diversity in their recruitment and selection processes

Burke, Conor (2024) How businesses successfully promote diversity in their recruitment and selection processes. Undergraduate thesis, Dublin, National College of Ireland.

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Abstract

This study sets out to identify if businesses are successfully promoting DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) strategies in their recruitment and selection processes. DEI is an ever more important goal for many companies in the modern day world. DEI are the processes involved around creating a fair and equal workplace for all regardless of their own differences or beliefs. DEI first came around in the mid 1960s in the USA. They used methods like positive action and diversity awareness to increase the number of diverse workers. DEI has been seen as controversial with many pushing back against the idea of it. This study aims to look at DEI in detail and identify if it is being used successfully or has shortcomings. Throughout this study the key theme of DEI is dissected in detail. It looks at previous studies to understand DEI and its success or shortcomings. This research shows that although DEI may be important to businesses many have yet use it successfully in their recruitment processes. This study determines that many businesses fail to fully commit to their DEI goals and simply use them to tick a box. It can be also seen that their is no quantifiable way to measure DEIs success and businesses could be losing money through this.

Item Type:	Thesis (Undergraduate)
Supervisors:	Name Email -, - UNSPECIFIED
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > Economics > Business H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management > Human Resource Management > Diversity H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management > Human Resource Management H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management > Human Resource Management > Recruitment
Divisions:	School of Business > BA (Honours) in Business Studies
Depositing User:	Ciara O'Brien
Date Deposited:	26 May 2025 10:55
Last Modified:	26 May 2025 10:55
URI:	https://norma.ncirl.ie/id/eprint/7645

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