Diversity Initiatives Analysis: A Report on Accenture's Practices

This report provides an overview of Accenture's diversity initiatives, examining their approach to cultural diversity, gender equality, and support for the LGBTQ community and individuals with disabilities. The report analyzes Accenture's strategies, highlighting their integration of social and cultural responsibilities with organizational objectives. It draws on information from Accenture's official website and other sources to critique these initiatives and offer recommendations for improvement, such as increasing the recruitment of LGBTQ community members and promoting women to higher positions within the company. The report emphasizes the importance of cultural diversity and its impact on innovation within the workplace, referencing relevant academic sources to support its analysis and conclusions. This assignment is contributed by a student and available on Desklib, a platform providing AI-based study tools for students.

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OVERVIEW OF ACCENTURE
 Accenture is a leading world-wide company of proficient
services.
 It provides a huge range of solutions and facilities in
technology, consulting, strategy and operations.
 It motivates invention to develop the way the world lives and
works (Accenture.com 2020).
 It hires more than 4,500 employees in Australia with the
offices in Melbourne, Sydney, Perth, Canberra and Brisbane
in addition to the people who are working at the sites of
client across the Australia.
 It helps the consumers to upload huge number of photos to
the sites of the social networking.
 Also it helps the clients to conduct more than 41 million
internet searches also 12 million visits of internet.
 Also it helps to secure the internet traffic of the planet and

DIVERSITY RELATED INITIATIVES
 Cultural diversity is very important and if analysed from an
organizational perspective.
 This will provide an idea how organizations extends their initiatives
beyond their business objectives.
 These initiatives defines how big organizations are thinking of social
and cultural responsibilities.
 Accenture has integrated their social and cultural responsibilities
perfectly with their organizational strategies .
 Accenture has showed other companies how not to follow social
stereotypes and create rules of its own that promotes cultural and
sexual diversity as well (Trax, Brunow and Suedekum 2015).
 There are several types of cultures, backgrounds and beliefs makes
the company much more innovative such as gender equality, persons
with the disabilities, supporting the LGBTQ community.

Sources
The information which is discussed here, it can be found from
various sources.
The information regarding the company Accenture and the
diversity related initiatives of this company are mainly found
in the official site of the company Accenture.
The official website is www.accenture.com/au-en.
Here all the details about the employees, work culture,
environment, about the career can be found.
Other sources are twitter, LinkedIn and many more.

CRITIQUE OF DIVERSITY INITIATIVES
 Accenture works at connection of the technology and business to support the
clients for improving their performance and generate the sustainable significance
for their all the stakeholders.
 For the cultural diversity, the organizations extends their initiatives beyond their
business objectives (Gordon 2018).
 There are several types of cultures, backgrounds and beliefs makes the company
much more innovative such as gender equality, persons with the disabilities,
supporting the LGBTQ community.
 For the gender equality, the Accenture believes upcoming workforce is the equal
one also have set a bold aim for accelerating the gender equality.
 For the persons with disabilities, this company do various things and recruit
many persons of these disabilities for their skills and performance.
 For the support for the LGBTQ community, they are committed to the equal
workplace.

Recommendations
The cultural diversity is the existence of the variety of the
cultural or the groups of ethnic within the society.
It is the result of values, practices, beliefs, traditions of the
employees which is based on the age, gender, religion, race and
ethnicity (Barak 2016).
Recruit much more the LGBTI community people so that they
are contribute their skills in the field of their preferences.
Placed women in the higher post of this company so that the
equality maintained throughout the company.

REFERENCES
Accenture.com. (2020). Accenture | Australia | New Applied Now.
[online] Available at: https://www.accenture.com/au-en [Accessed 25
Jan. 2020].
Trax, M., Brunow, S. and Suedekum, J., 2015. Cultural diversity and
plant-level productivity. Regional Science and Urban Economics, 53,
pp.85-96.
Gordon, P.A., 2018. Age diversity in the workplace. In Diversity and
inclusion in the global workplace (pp. 31-47). Palgrave Macmillan,
Cham.
Barak, M.E.M., 2016. Managing diversity: Toward a globally inclusive
workplace. Sage Publications.