how to measure diversity

1. Measure diversity? Can you even do that? Is it worth the effort to do so? In this day and age, diversity is one of the hot topics in business. To work effectively, you need to measure your efforts. Hence you need to measure diversity. But how do you do it? First and foremost, start by looking at your overall people process. It needs to be compliant, and it needs to be in line with local laws. Many companies forget this first very essential step when starting to measure diversity. It will undoubtedly backfire. So make sure you are compliant, that you have a robust process in place before even starting peeking at any other start measuring diversity data related to this. After you have your process cleared - you can start looking into the fun stuff - the data! Begin by thinking outside the box. What metrics do you need? And how can you use them?