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Building a diverse workforce

Creating an environment where every employee can reach his or her full potential, by encouraging wellbeing and development, is critical for building a diverse and inclusive workforce. It is also important to have a balance between the existing culture while evolving a new one to accelerate innovation.

Mr. Nithyanandh Dayalan

Country HR Manager, Rolls-Royce, India & South Asia

India’s young workforce

As one of the youngest nations in the world, and about 250 million young people expected to join the workforce over the next decade, India needs to ensure that its future talent pipeline is prepared for the fast-changing needs of the industry.

As India positions itself to achieve strong economic growth, the availability of a highly-skilled workforce which can help organisations across sectors maintain their competitive capabilities will be key. Although India’s talent availability -- more than 3,500 engineering colleges in India producing about 1.5 million engineering graduates annually- is unmatched by any other country, it needs to focus on ensuring there is no mismatch in skills particularly in STEM-related industries. Building a highly-skilled workforce equipped with ever-evolving technologies will enable companies in India to carry out critical research and development (R&D) and bring out innovative products and aftermarket services to market.

Organisations around the world also recognize the need to build and maintain a diverse workforce to harvest the best ideas and stay competitive.

Enabling organizational diversity

Creating an environment where every employee can reach his or her full potential, by encouraging wellbeing and development, is critical for building a diverse and inclusive workforce. Diversity in the workforce and bringing in employees with different backgrounds are essential stimulants to innovation and creativity.

This essentially means that there is need to build a culture of boldness or lack of fear of failure. It also requires underlining the importance of collaboration within teams by sharing information and building a high level of transparency. Lastly, by providing regular opportunities for learning and training to employees, companies ensure that staff feel motivated and inspired to contribute towards the success of business.

Diversity enables innovation

When we say diversity enables innovation, it is key to develop a culture that is open to appreciating a problem or a solution coming from different groups. Diversity must also come with inclusion.

It is also important to have a balance between the existing culture while evolving a new one to accelerate innovation to help employees adapt to the evolving pace of change.

Globally, Rolls-Royce invests millions of pounds every year in learning and development programmes to raise the standards of competitive performance; develop business acumen, management and leadership skills; promote innovation; help employees realise their potential and contribute to increased customer satisfaction.

Secondly, as one of the world’s leading industrial technology companies, we invest in building a strong pipeline of diverse talent critical to the future success of our business. We’ve set a global target to reach six million people through our STEM education programmes and activities by 2020. Globally, we have around 1,400 Rolls-Royce STEM ambassadors who are actively involved in education programmes and activities.

Next steps

Companies can start working with high schools to motivate and engage early with young talent and look at recruiting women and minority groups who often constitute a large untapped demographic.

A clear understanding of the career path is crucial for attracting and retaining talent especially in the Aerospace & Defence sector. Additionally, defining a clear career progression roadmap helps retain experienced technical specialists in the industry.

In order to move faster and address this opportunity, a diverse workforce is critical - having employees with different perspectives, backgrounds and problem-solving approaches to come up with unique ideas. The bottom-line is that through a combination of multiple stimulations - collaborative culture, diverse set of ideas, understanding of the right problems to solve and giving people the correct direction, companies can encourage diversity and foster inclusiveness, and consequently, meaningful innovation. In this manner, you create the first level of acceptance to move forward in line with the evolving customer demands.

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