Online Diversity Self Assessment Tool - Quick Check

Test your diversity management strategy!

Is your business/institution prepared for the challenges of future resulting from HR and organisational developments?
Please take ten minutes to complete the diversity / workforce diversity quick check and you will gain an initial assessment of how your organisation handles workforce diversity.

Please answer the questions based on the actual situation in your company / your institution, and please be honest! Choose the answer that best describes your current situation, not the one that you thing is most attractive or desirable. This is the only way to get a meaningful result.

Yes
No
1.Our business / our institution see the need to give serious consideration to managing workforce diversity / to a diversity management system.
2.We want to make better use of the potential of all our employees.
3.The ongoing demographic trend requires us to adjust our HR policy in preparation
4.We are having problems finding suitable employees in the job market.
5.We employ hardly any people who have a migrant background.Migration.
6.We have employees with variable capacity for work variable capacity, for whom alternative jobs need to be created.
7.Our workforce is too old.
8.Our workforce lacks older, experienced employees.
9.We want to raise the proportion of women in management roles.
10.We want to expand areas of our business more aggressively into foreign markets, and need to prepare our staff for this.
11.To implement our corporate goals we need a wider diversity of employees in the company.
12.Corporate restructuring has given rise to conflicts.
13.The requirements of our equal opportunity and anti discrimination laws make it necessary to give serious consideration to diversity.
14.We see a need for action in respect of recruitment and preferment of under-represented groups of persons (younger or older people, men or women, people with migrant background, people with variable capacity for work).
15.In our company/organisation, employees are not given enough latitude and creative scope to adapt their jobs to suit their individual requirements..
16.In our company/organisation, there are insufficient means of adapting jobs to the changing needs of employees..
17.Work design in our company/organisation does not sufficiently accommodate our employees’ varied life situations (e.g. compatibility of career and family, caring for relatives, extended visits abroad)..
18.The provisions that we make for maintaining and promoting health and well-being are not taken up in the same way by all groups of people..
19.Our assessment and job-grading principles are not designed to consider whether any group of people is disadvantaged.
20.Management behaviour in our company/organisation should be more strongly geared towards openness and communication in order to improve the management of diversity.
21.Our corporate culture lacks recognition and appreciation of diverse groups of people.
22.In our company/organisation we do not do enough to ensure the integration of all groups of people.
23.Not all groups of people are treated with equal consideration and respect by management.
24.The works council / staff council / employee representation has not yet given serious thought to the subject of diversity.
25.We do not make sufficient use of the knowledge of our diverse workforce in order to take the diverse interests of our Custumers into account.
26.Our company/organisation does not sufficiently address the needs of a diverse customer base in its sales and marketing activities.
27.To be honest, a corporate diversity policy sounds like very hard work and we don’t know whether it’s worth it.


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Migration (Return to question)

People with variable work capacity are employees whose activities are restricted due to a medically attested, irreversible medical condition. These are predominantly older people but only in some cases are they disabled. By contrast, a disability is present if the individual’s impairments are extensive, comparatively severe and long-term.(Return to question)

The term „customer“ comprises everyone who makes use of or buys a product of the business/institution. (Return to question)