The Power of Inclusion: How Diversity Drives Innovation and Growth (Capgemini)

Diversity and Inclusivity

Diversity represents the presence of individual from various backgrounds like race, gender, ethnicity, age, religion, sexual orientation, and ability. Most of the companies recognize the greatness of inclusiveness at workplace to create perception and uniqueness of all employees. It has many benefits like increase the creativity, innovations, and can offer different insight for problem solving.

Diversity can improve employees morale and job satisfaction, results loyalty towards the organization, reduces employee turnover rate and increased in productivity for which long term commitment are required at workplace culture. Inclusivity refers, creating environment where every one feel valued and respectful without any background difference, where everyone can showcase their uniqueness and creative thoughts without fear of discrimination.

 Policies under diversity and inclusion

1. Improve gender representation: providing better workplace for women and encouraging to them shapes the future of digital economy. Capgemini aims all female employees to take part in corporate life as well as in decision making, which is adopted in 2012 under the fundament principle of "equal opportunities and equal chances".

• Encouraging culture change to position balanced leadership
• Placing women admits building client relationship
• Creating flexible working condition
• Providing equal opportunities for women

2. LGBT Inclusion: Capgemini ensures that our lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender we are symbol of inclusion. Our goal is to create a workplace LGBT individuals can be themselves at work and reach their potential. We aim to make workplace more productive and barrier-free.

• Medical Insurance in same sex relationship
• Gender affirmation surgery for trans gender
• All gender washrooms

3. Honoring Capabilities: People with disabilities often struggle to make a good living due to accessible infrastructure and awareness. It requires systematic and comprehensive awareness to ensure their participation in the economic value generation process. At Capgemini, we see this is an opportunity and social responsibility to upskill their potential and can live very decent life 

• Providing opportunities for successful career
• Making efforts for necessary physical and digital adjustments
  
• Breaking bias
• Promoting engagement  and employment with specially able

4. Cultural Pluralism: the phenomenon of many cultural groups coexisting in single community. In this pillar, Capgemini Group pledge to hire, develop, and advance more talented individual from underrepresented groups and provide workplace environment where everyone, regardless of color, ethnicity, feels welcomed and appreciated 

5. Happiness and  well-being: Capgemini recognize the connection between happiness and well-being at personal goals. Capgemini hope to give the employees a comprehensive opportunity to foster their happiness and well being through this pillar. 

Conclusion: Celebrating  diversity at Capgemini ensures new experience, ideas and perspectives and enrich for expansion of employees horizon. Ultimately, fostering  culture of inclusivity and diversity is not only the right thing to do, but it is essential for building better world.