According to Lampkin, their data and analysis points to the biggest stakeholders for improving diversity within an organization comes down to those in middle management positions. As primary people managers, middle management typically brings in new team members, which is why Blendoor feels they have the greatest impact on who enters and exits a company. Both for internal and external transparency, it’s the team’s hope that by putting diversity and inclusion at the forefront with the BBI rating system that it will encourage organizations to form relevant goals and incentivize hiring managers to adopt equitable hiring, promotion, compensation, and communication practices. Among their surveyed and collected data, some of the results are based on questions in their methodology such as:
Do you incentivize for diverse referrals?Do you have a head of diversity recruiting?Do you sponsor internal diversity events/conferences?What percent of your people managers are diverse?Do you have an internal team/group focused on social impact for diversity?
Launched in beta, BlendScore has a rating for 138 tech companies that segments them down based on retention statistics, demographics of their leadership team, recruiting approaches, bias, and social impact initiatives. In the future, additional organizations will be able to participate in the scoring system and program. Read more about diversity and inclusion here on Tech.Co
