MBA502 Presentation: Accenture Australia Diversity Analysis

This presentation examines the diversity policy of Accenture Australia Pty Ltd, a management service company. It provides an overview of the company, its services, and its commitment to inclusion and diversity. The presentation highlights Accenture's diversity initiatives, including gender equality, LGBTQ+ inclusion, and programs for people with disabilities, citing information from the company's website and other secondary sources. It critiques these initiatives, noting the awards and recognition Accenture has received for its diversity efforts. The presentation also offers recommendations for further improvements, such as implementing programs that value individual differences and extending support for victims of family violence, drawing on insights from other companies' diversity policies. The presentation concludes with a list of references and a bibliography.

Diversity policy of
Accenture, Australia
Name of the Student:
Name of the University:

Personal Introduction
• To be filled by the student

Accenture Australia Pty Ltd: Overview
• Accenture Australia Pty Ltd is a management service company
• Offers a wide range of business consulting services like:
• Change risk
• Financial performance
• Customer relationship
• Supply chain
• Workforce performance management
• Human resources and talent
• Enterprise services
• Strategy consulting
• Marketing science services
• Annual revenue (2018): US $39.6 billion (Accenture.com 2019)
• Number of employees in Australia: 5000 (approx.)
• Its inclusion and diversity policy is transparent and focuses on

Diversity Initiatives
•Gender
equality
•Pride
(LGBTQI)
•Focus on
Enablement
•Cross Culture
and
Indigenous
People
• 50-50 gender balance by 2025
• place 25% of all the managing directors as females
by 2020
• PrideAtAccenture ANZ expanded to more than 800
allies
• ‘Australia Workplace Equality Index Inaugural
Platinum Employer of the Year award’ and the
‘Sapphire Inspire award’ in 2017 (Accenture.com
2020)
• Inclusion of people with different physical
disabilities, mental health ally network and
veterans
• Member of Diversity Council Australia and a Gold
Member of Australian Network on Disability
• Training and career opportunities for Maori and
Pasifika tertiary students
• Skills to Succeed program for preparing more than
3 million people from underrepresented

Source of information
• Secondary sources of information
• Website of Accenture Australia Pty Ltd
• https://
www.accenture.com/au-en/about/inclusion-diversity-index?src
=JBCAMP
• https://
www.accenture.com/au-en/company-corporate-citizenship?src
=JBCAMP
• https://www.themartec.com/insidelook/companies-do-diversit
y-right

Critique of the diversity initiatives
• Accenture is an award winning company for inclusion and diversity
• Ranked 1 by Thomson Reuters Index of world’s Most diverse and
inclusive companies (Newsroom.accenture.com 2020)
• ‘Australia Workplace Equality Index Inaugural Platinum Employer of
the Year award’ in 2017
• ‘Sapphire Inspire award’ in 2017 for promoting inclusion of LGBTQ
community in workforce
• Member of Diversity Council Australia
• Gold Member of Australian Network on Disability
• Perfect score on Disability Equality Index for three consecutive years
• National Organization on Disability’s Disability Employer Seal of
Approval for three consecutive years
• 7th rank on DiversityInc’s top 50 companies for diversity for 13
consecutive years (Accenture.com 2020)

Recommendations: what else could the
firm do in relation to diversity
• Some programs can be introduced that would value and
respect individual differences, such as, some events or
recreational programs
• Extending support for victims of family violence
• Spreading the recruitment process across different channels,
identifying the reason that people from different ages, cultures
and social backgrounds search for jobs differently
• Celebrating special events like ‘Harmony Day’ where
employees may bring their unique cultural food (and telling
the history) or from a country that they visited recently .

Additional sources for
recommendation
• Diversity policies of global companies like Ernst and Young,
PwC
• Inclusion and diversity policy of major Australian companies
like Telstra, MadeComfy, Bench etc.

References
• Accenture.com, 2020. Empowering Persons with Disabilities | Accenture. [online]
Accenture.com. Available at: https://www.accenture.com/au-en/about/inclusion-
diversity/persons-with-disabilities?src=JBCAMP [Accessed 10 Jan. 2020].
• Accenture.com, 2020. Learn how equality drives innovation. [online]
Accenture.com. Available at: https://www.accenture.com/au-en/about/inclusion-
diversity/gender-equality?src=JBCAMP [Accessed 10 Jan. 2020].
• Accenture.com, 2019. Accenture Annual Report 2018. [online] Available at:
https://www.accenture.com/_acnmedia/pdf-89/accenture-fiscal-2018-annual-
report.pdf [Accessed 10 Jan. 2020].
• Catford, M., 2018. How Australia's Top Companies Do Diversity Right | The Martec.
[online] Inside Look by The Martec. Available at:
https://www.themartec.com/insidelook/companies-do-diversity-right [Accessed 10
Jan. 2020].
• Newsroom.accenture.com, 2020. Accenture Ranks No. 1 on Thomson Reuters Index
of World’s Most Diverse and Inclusive Companies | Accenture Newsroom. [online]
Newsroom.accenture.com. Available at:
https://newsroom.accenture.com/news/accenture-ranks-no-1-on-thomson-reuters-
index-of-worlds-most-diverse-and-inclusive-companies.htm [Accessed 10 Jan. 2020].

Bibliography
• Ey.com, 2020. Diversity and inclusiveness. [online] Ey.com. Available at:
https://www.ey.com/en_in/diversity-inclusiveness [Accessed 10 Jan. 2020].
• pwc.com, 2020. Diversity and inclusion at PwC. [online] PwC. Available at:
https://www.pwc.com/us/en/about-us/diversity.html [Accessed 10 Jan. 2020].
• Telstra.com.au, 2020. EMPLOYEE DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION. [online]
Telstra.com.au. Available at:
https://www.telstra.com.au/content/dam/tcom/about-us/investors/pdf%20D/
telstra-employee-diversity-and-inclusion.pdf [Accessed 10 Jan. 2020].

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