Global Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion
Leaders in Global Equality and Diversity since 1962
ORC helps clients unleash the full power of today’s diverse workforce by understanding and capitalizing on the different backgrounds, experiences, and abilities of employees. Through programs and strategies that recognize differences that make a difference, we can help your organization position individuals to contribute at their optimal level, and give you the marketplace advantage you need to compete for diverse talent within national or global pools.
Today's employers have an unprecedented challenge—manage the most skilled, diverse, and geographically dispersed workforce in history. To be successful, they must create a work environment that promotes equality, leverages diversity, and ensures inclusion and full contributions from every employee around the world. This is a challenge of incredible complexity and subtlety, involving every human resources management process and every people-related decision the organization makes.
ORC’s global equality, diversity, and inclusion practice helps companies and not-for-profits rise to these challenges. We provide consulting and information analysis on the legal and regulatory frameworks in the United States and Europe, on all aspects of diversity strategy and operational issues regarding equality and diversity. Our unique blend of knowledge, skills, and experiences in both local and global arenas enables us to:
- Provide guidance on the legal, regulatory, social, and economic environments in countries around the world,
- Assess the current work environment to identify barriers to inclusion and to build upon organizational strengths,
- Establish a global equality and diversity infrastructure that forges partnerships among various functions,
- Manage diversity councils, task forces, and affinity groups,
- Devise equality, diversity, and inclusion strategies that flow from and support business strategy,
- Design HR systems and processes, such as pay systems and performance measurement, that are inclusive and bias-free,
- Benchmark policies, practices, and results with other global organizations,
- Help clients foster management and employee ownership of equality and diversity,
- Identify and develop an inclusive global talent pool,
- Develop diversity communications strategies, messages, and materials, and
- Establish meaningful measures that help you make better decisions.