*Dr Sustainability’s Recommended Read*
👋 My recommended read to close of 2024 is ‘Belonging: The key to transforming and maintaining diversity, inclusion and equality at work’ authored by Jacob, Unerman and Edwards.
📖 The publication is reasonably priced and available in sustainable mediums including Audiobook and Kindle.
🔦 The authors note, though work has been done in the area and studies have shown the most successful and productive senior management teams are those which are truly diverse; there remains [at time of publication] only 8 female CEOs of FTSE 100 brands and only 10 ‘BAME’ people in leadership roles across companies in the FTSE 100.
🔍 The authors, through extensive research and interviews at over 200 international businesses discover one major problem that is holding back the move towards greater diversity: why aren’t the men getting involved?
⏳️ Though attitudes and process has been made to make workplaces more inclusive, this has been slow, in some cases grinded to a halt.
👦 The authors note, ‘most’ men are not engaged with D&I initiatives in the workplace – at one extreme they may be feeling actively hostile and threatened by the changing cultural landscape. While others may be unmotivated to change – recognising the abstract benefits of diversity but not realising what’s in it for them.
🫂 The book ‘Belonging’ is the call to action we need today -the tool to turn the men in power into allies as we battle discrimination, harassment, pay gaps, and structural racism and patriarchy at every level of the workplace.
🛎 The lessons in this book will help individuals and teams work together to build a better workplace where everyone feels they belong. The book is challenging, direct, provocative and yet practical.
🧩 It is an easy read, with live examples from the research and a must-read for a business leader or those looking to form a high performing sustainable leadership team.
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