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Diversity in business

Contents
Introduction  3
Measuring how sophisticated organisations are in managing diversity  4
National-level drivers for diversity management  6
Organisational-level drivers for diversity management  10
The people who drive diversity progress  13
Conclusions and implications  19
Background  20
Profile of the respondents  21
Acknowledgements  24

  Introduction      
  The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) has undertaken a range of research about managing diversity. In 2006, we carried out the first UK national-level survey to find out what resources organisations in the public, private and voluntary sectors invest in progressing diversity management, and the status and power given to those with diversity roles.       
   Working with the Queen Mary Centre for Research at London University, a unique electronic survey was designed to obtain quantitative information about the influence of the business case and legislation in driving diversity progress. The results provide some important and enlightening statistical information and show what kinds of policies and practices organisations have developed and how well they seem to be working.    
   Following further analysis of the results that were first published in July 2006 in a report called Managing Diversity: How much progress have employers made?, this second report draws out more findings from the data.     
   The survey results are based on the responses of 285 individuals across all economic sectors and give a clear picture about the role of law in informing what organisations pay attention to and how significant the business case is for taking action. This report helps organisations to assess their performance on managing diversity and see where they need to focus their attention to ensure that managing diversity has an increasing impact on business performance. It enables them to do this by comparing what they do with the simple diversity sophistication index developed from the survey results.       
   Overall, the results deliver good and bad news. The survey shows that, despite good progress, a large majority of employers have a long way to go to makediversity a mainstream business issue and deliver on the rhetoric they espouse.