Strategies in Leading Diverse Teams

This report discusses strategies for leading diverse teams in the workplace. It covers recruitment strategies for attracting diverse talent, recommended strategies for handling unconscious bias in the selection process, rewards systems for satisfying diverse individual requirements, and strategies for encouraging employee engagement. The case study focuses on City Central, an award-winning international conference venue in Europe.

Strategies in Leading
Diverse Teams

Table of Contents
Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Recruitment strategies that could help in attracting diverse team to city central..............1
Recommended recruitment strategies for dealing through unconscious bias in selection
process........................................................................................................................................2
Recommended rewards systems for satisfying a diverse mix of individual’s requirements
at city central.............................................................................................................................4
Recommended strategies that are used for encouraging employee engagement at city
central.........................................................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
As diverse team leads to create more diverse as well as original thoughts that could lead to
have better outcomes. As there are various strategies that could be used by companies in order to
lead their diverse team in terms of achieving their goals as well as objectives in a specific period
of time. There are various strategies such as recruitment which could be used by companies in
order to hire effective talent for having diverse team lead (Yabroff, Bradley and Shih, 2019).
This Report is based on strategies in leading diverse team in city central which is an award
winning international conference venue in Europe cities. This report includes recruitment
strategies which could help in attracting diverse team to City Central, recommended recruitment
strategies for handling unconscious bias in selection process, recommended reward systems in
order for satisfying diverse mix of individual’s needs, strategies which are used for encouraging
employee engagement along with its conclusion.
MAIN BODY
Recruitment strategies that could help in attracting diverse team to city central.
Recruitment strategies refer to a clear and effective plan that elaborates the roles that an
organisation need for which they recruit the person. This strategy is useful to attain overall
objectives and it helps in easily communicate the strategies within the organisation so that goals
are attained on time frame (Olivier and Schwella, 2018). It demonstrates the formal plan of
identify, recruit and hire high quality candidates for the aim of fulfilling the open position. In
terms of City central that is an award winning international conference venue in one of the
Europe key cities. In context of City central there are several recruitment strategies which are
useful to attract a diverse team that helps in build a positive image into marketplace are presented
below:
 Recruitment drives: It refers to an effective strategy of recruitment that helps in raising
awareness of fantastic opportunities. In case of City Central, management used the virtual
recruitment drive due to the major pandemic situation occur in all over the world. This is
one of the best strategies to attract the diverse range of team into City central as it
presents as an award winning international conference in European city. For them hiring
a diverse team is very essential who fulfill all the task requirements so that institute attain
quality result in their long term survival. While focusing on virtual recruitment drive
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administration team of City Central personalize their hiring and try to reflect values by
engaging candidates into particular job ads. In this they take virtual interview of number
of candidate from diverse culture and build a team as per ability and capability of
individual to perform task.
 The images used: In City central manager need to focus on using several City Central
area places images so that number of diverse people is attracted towards it (Prashantham
and Eranova, 2020). In this they also present the job description in terms of Images so
that number off diverse teams are attracted towards it and this helps in attaining target of
recruiting diverse team within City Central.
 Setting quotas: It is another strategy that is adopted by City central to recruit a diverse
team for attaining and attracting number of business at venue for award winning
conference. In this manager of City central follow a several steps as a quotas that helps in
attracting diverse teams:
 Firstly, City central place a job ad in number of sources like magazines, websites, e-
newsletters, social media etc.
 Taking the help of advanced specialized job boards that helps City Central to promote
diversity and attract diverse team for profit generation (Driskell, Salas and Driskell, 2018).
This helps firm to hire best candidate from diverse nature who are able to fulfill job
requirements that are needed by City Central.
 In this City Central join the diverse application where they recruit and attract number of
diverse team. These applications are LinkedIn and several other sites. These are useful to
maintain the relationship and later help in finding diverse applications.
 Another factor is that city central encourage their existing team member so that they refer
diverse candidate. In this current employees also get bonus amounts in the employee’s
referral program procedures.
Recommended recruitment strategies for dealing through unconscious bias in selection
process.
As there is various unconscious bias that could be arise in carrying out selection process
(Schrand, Ascherl and Schaefers, 2018). As when companies carrying out selection process for
hiring effective candidates there are various bias that could be occurred so for that there should
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be a proper solution for that and in order to remove that by various recruitment strategies could
be used by companies in order to deal with them. As these recruitment strategies Good help in
handling unconscious bias effectively in selection process and as a result effective as well as
talented employees could be hired performing out job roles. In terms of case study of city central
there are some recommended recruitment strategies which could be used to handle unconscious
bias in selection method which are as follows:
 Blind recruitment: As this recruitment strategy could be recommended to companies
where it is a process which is used to block out a job applicant’s personal information
which could influence or bias a hiring decision making (Park and Paiva, 2018). As in
terms of city central they use blind recruitment as their process that helps in removing
any as well as determined details of candidates in terms of resumes along with
applications. Blind recruitment helps them in identifying as well as hiring a team that
helps in evaluating individuals on basis of their skills along with experience instead of
having various aspects that could lead in having biased decision. As some identification
which could be Black out through blind recruitment which could be carried in terms of
ethnic background, gender, games, education and so on.
 Having interview panels: As by providing diverse interview panels in companies it is
helpful for dealing with unconscious bias as interview panels are likely to referred that
same individual that is not always on panel along with having different individual to get
experience of interviewing along with having growth of team as well as company
(Alibašić, 2018). As this recruitment strategy is recommended to City Central by using
different interview panel with having diverse interviewer portfolio so that applicants
could be filled relaxed as well as interconnected with them so that they could be able to
perform their highest level of interview for carrying out these practices. As City Central
could be able to use this recruitment strategy in order to avoid unconscious bias as it
provides their candidates with a better experience along with that it provides them with
the more well round of interview of candidates.
 Diversity as well as inclusion training: As this recruitment strategy could be
recommended for city central in order to avoid unconscious bias. As by providing
diversity along with inclusion training to their every staff member it provides a concrete
way to engage in a respectful along with positive interactions in their workplace while
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decreasing discrimination as well as producers that are related to different factors which
are ethnicity, gender, mental ability and so on. As this strategy will help City Central in
gathering diverse portfolio of applicants in terms of hiring their job profile so that highly
skilled candidate could be selected for job portal along with biasness could be reduced
and actively handled.
Along with that there are also some of the strategies which could be used by city central in
order to avoid and reduce bias that could be occurred in selection process which are:
 Making their interview process and method structured with a well infrastructure.
 Advertising roles and duties of job profile which could be promoted through different
channels.
 Making a data driven decision in order to collect relevant and accurate data.
 Removing gendered wording in order to avoid bias in working practices.
Recommended rewards systems for satisfying a diverse mix of individual’s requirements at
city central.
Employee reward system basically referred to programs that are being set up by a company
in order to recognise and appraise performance along with motivating employees in group levels.
As the anomalies said to be separate from their why did salary but it could be monetary in nature
along with have a cost of company (Sperber and Linder, 2018). In General reward system is
considered to be a providing incentive to their employees in terms of their higher performance.
As it is necessary for companies to keep reward system in order to keep their employees satisfied
in terms of having a diverse mix of individual requirements so that their goals could be achieved
effectively on time. As in terms of City Central some of reward system that could be
recommended to them in order to satisfy a diverse mix of individual requirements are as follows:
 Generational requirements: As employees that are working in companies could be of
any age factor so in order to keep them motivated as well as satisfied towards are diverse
mix of their needs it is necessary for City Central to identify their needs and requirements
according to their generation. So for that it is recommended to City Central that they
should provide reward system according to generational requirements of employees and
candidates that are working in their workplace as young generation candidates could be
provided with incentives in terms of holiday vouchers, along with some discounts and
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extra salary as well as other employees could be provided with incentives of safety and
security insurance where their needs could be fulfilled.
 Family friendly policies: As this reward system could be recommended to city central in
order to satisfy their individuals demand and requirements so that they will be able to be
get motivated in terms of carrying out their work practices effectively (Miller, Gomes and
Lehman, 2019). City Central could provide their reward system in terms of family
friendly policies also so that individual could be able to take that policies on behalf of
their family or friends as well as they could be easily to be understand and could be
carried by them effectively about having any issues and they could be easily
understandable by them. It is Recommended to City Central that they should provide
different policies which are relatable to their employees that are working there.
 Incentives: As what system could be provided in terms of giving incentives to their
working candidates in order to satisfy a diverse mix of their requirements and needs. City
Central is recommended to provide a reward system in terms of incentives which could
be taken in terms of vouchers, extra salary, monetary benefits, security allowances and so
on so that they could be able to satisfy and fulfil their requirements in an effective
manner and their work capability could be increased. As being an award meaning
international conference venue it is necessary for them to handle their working employees
with an effectiveness by providing them attractive reward systems so that their efficiency
could be maintained in corporate markets.
Recommended strategies that are used for encouraging employee engagement at city
central.
As employee engagement is considered to be an extent by which employees could be filled
passionate about their job roles and they are committed towards company as well as they put
their discretionary and effective efforts in order to work along with achieving their goals
(Njoroge, Anderson and Mbura, 2019). Employee engagement generally refers to driving
performance of individuals. So it is necessary for companies to keep their employees engaged in
their work so that their goals and objectives could be met on specific period of time. And that
there are various strategies that could be recommended to companies for increasing their
employee engagement. In terms of case of city central different strategies that are recommended
to them for encouraging their employee engagement are as follows:
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 Employee voice mechanism: As it refers to a way by which individuals could
communicate about their views to their employees along with influence their matters
which could affect them on their work. As it terms in changing feature of voice as well as
influencing employment relationship in terms of different mechanism for representing
their participation at workplace. In terms of case of city central this strategy could be
used by them in order to encourage their employees for taking participation in terms of
communicating to higher authorities as well as communicating towards managers so that
their opinions could be used for having better change policies in their venues and
effectiveness in markets could be maintained as their Goodwill.
 Transparency: In order to keep employees and individuals engaged in work it is
necessary for companies to provide them a transparency of working about their job roles
and duties which are to be performed by them along with without having any confusion
(Covello, 2020). As this is strategy could be recommended to City Central in terms of
providing a transparency of their work individuals in terms of giving out their job roles
and duties to them not having any confusion and assign their work according to their
specialisation so that they could be able to work with their assigned duty with all their
effectiveness and passion. This is strategy could use for or having employee’s
engagement it in higher terms in city central.
 Sharing strategic vision with employees: As by sharing about visions of company e with
their employees it will help them in gaining out various opinions as well as effective
engagement of individuals towards their goals. As when employees are fully aware as
well as well-versed about companies and workplace’s strategic vision they will feel
connected towards their vision as well as carry their work in terms of achieving them
(Hole, Pawar and Bhaskar, 2018). As in terms of city central they should share their
vision as well as ideas of carrying out their conferences to their employee so that they
will be able to provide their opinions in terms of improvement along with working
towards achievement of their conference goals which are to be specified by higher
authorities. As these strategies will help in increasing employee engagement at City
Central at higher terms.
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CONCLUSION
From above report it could be concluded that leading a diverse team are considered to be
more effective strategies which could be used to hire skilled as well as talented employees for
achieving goals and objectives of companies. This report is based on a case study of city central
in which various recruitment strategies are to be identified so that it will be able to provide
effective and talented employees to them along with recommended recruitment strategies that
could be used by them for dealing with unconscious bias in carrying out selection method. There
is also an explanation of reward systems for satisfying a wide mix of individuals needs that could
be carried in case. Along with this report also explains about different strategies which are used
for encouraging employee engagement at company building up higher performance for
accomplishing goals within a specific period of time having effectiveness of working.
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