About Investors in Diversity
The 'Investors in Diversity' is a new standard, which helps organisations adopt and develop a set of characteristics and behaviours, which if embraced, can lead to real and sustainable gains through culture movement. It also enables organisations to measure their progress as well and be recognised for achievements.
The concept of ‘Investors in Diversity’ has been under development since 1997 but it is in the last two years that the development process has really accelerated. Consultation on the standard, at a national level, has been on-going during 2005. Concurrently, a number of action research pilots are also on-going but the standard has now been finalised and organisations are now able to apply to become an 'Investor in Diversity'. To find out how we can help your organisation become truly inclusive contact us.
Investors in Diversity - Aim:
To support and enable organisations to adopt, develop and benchmark behaviours and practices, which promote inclusion, equality, diversity and achievement.
Investors in Diversity – Objectives:
- Support candidate organisations that are committed to inclusion.
- Assist candidate organisations to learn about their stakeholders
- Support candidate organisations to develop and sustain an inclusive and adaptive organisational culture and environment.
- Help candidate organisations to measure their success.
- Provide accreditation to achieving candidate organisations
IiD offers a user-friendly route map, to any organisation, to higher achievement. It supports organisations towards inclusion of all stakeholders via an informed and self determined organisational culture shift. It measures distance travelled against a cross sectoral national standard and it offers recognition for successes.
Amongst the organisations consulted or involved are, Community and Voluntary Sector Organisations, National Charities, the Local Government Association’s Employers organisation- dialog, The British Chambers of Commerce, Local Chambers, the Disability Rights Commission, the CRE, the Equal Opportunities Commission, Economic Development Agencies, the CBI, Banks, SME’s, Ethnic Minority Business Development Networks, IBM, Empire Direct, Investors in People,’ Yorkshire Universities’, The DfES, The Police Service, The Association of Chief Police Officers, The Department for International Development, Business in the Community, Race for Opportunity, LEA’s, Connexions, Schools, FE Colleges, HE Colleges and several Local Authorities.