Creating and Retaining a Diverse and Productive Workforce

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In Creating and Retaining a Diverse and Productive Workforce , you'll learn ...

• The personal benefits associated with being a member of an inclusive and productive workforce
• The benefits associated with knowing how to create and retain such a workforce
• How to calculate the costs of employee turnover
• How to determine the Return on Investment (ROI) of this course

Overview

Major league baseball broke the color barrier not because of social consciousness but because they could no longer ignore the talented black players who performed so superbly. This course will teach you how to work with senior management in your organization as an internal consultant to focus on performance measurements and issues that will help create and retain a diverse and productive workforce. The objectives of this course are to help you identify the essential elements that must be present and to develop practical strategic and tactical plans to help it become so focused on performance that issues such as ethnicity, gender, age, etc. have no place in the decision of "who plays."

This course provides practical and easy-to-follow guidance for leaders who want to help create and retain a more inclusive and productive workforce in their organization. Systematic guidance helps users develop a business case for organizational change by teaching them how to calculate the return of investment (ROI) on reduced turnover, measure their current organizational situation, and to develop an action plan to "brand" their organization as an employer of choice. The objective of this course is to provide guidance to motivated individuals who want to take an active part in improving the productive environment at their workplace.

Specific Knowledge or Skill Obtained

This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:

• The personal benefits associated with being a member of an inclusive and productive workforce
• The benefits associated with knowing how to create and retain such a workforce
• How to calculate the costs of employee turnover
• How to determine the Return on Investment (ROI) of this course
• How to identify the traits of an inclusive and productive workforce
• How to determine the extent to which they currently have a productive workforce
• The requirements necessary for a productive workforce
• The five components of employee motivation
• The extent to which these components are currently present in their organization

Certificate of Completion

You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a multiple-choice quiz consisting of 35 questions. CPD credits are not awarded until the course is completed and quiz is passed.