Additional funding was provided through the OECD’s Central Priority Fund (CPF) to support a new area of work on the economic impact of diversity, and the appropriate policy responses to making the most of diverse societies. This document presents the findings of this work. The report was prepared by Shirin Abrishami Kashani and Eva Degler under the supervision of Thomas Liebig, all from the OECD’s International Migration Division, and under the leadership of Mark Pearson, Deputy Director for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs. It benefitted from comments by Willem Adema, Carlotta Balestra, Stephane Carcillo, Jean-Christophe Dumont, Lara Fleischer, Marco Mira D’Ercole, Natalia Nolan Flecha, Christopher Prinz, Monika Queisser, Stefano Scarpetta and Marie-Anne Valfort. Chapter 3 benefitted from a background report by Ceren Ozgen (Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at the Department of Economics and the Institute for Research into Superdiversity (IRiS) at the University of Birmingham). The report also includes a contribution by Martyna Wanat, from the OECD’s Directorate for Public Governance. Liv Gudmundson, Natalie Corry and Lucy Hullet prepared the publication.
The report includes results from a survey among 2400 HR managers in eight OECD countries that was conducted together with the Chair Management, Diversités et Cohésion Sociale of Paris Dauphine University and with the support of national Human Ressource (HR) Associations to gather evidence on the experiences and views of HR professionals regarding diversity practices in their firms. The Secretariat would like to thank Jean-François Chanlat, Mustafa Özbilgin and Maria Giuseppina Bruna for the the co-operation, as well as the supporting HR Associations: Australian HR Institute (AHRI), Chartered Professionals in Human Resources (CPHR, Canada) and Human Resources Professionals Association (HRPA, Canada), Association Nationale des DRH (ANDRH, France), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Personalführung (DGFP, Germany), Associazione Italiana per la Direzione del Personale (AIDP, Italy), HR Norge (Norway), Associação Portuguesa de Gestão das Pessoas (APG, Portugal) and Fundación para el Desarrollo de la Función de Recursos Humanos Fundipe (Spain).
The report also builds on the results of a policy questionnaire that was sent to member countries through the delegates of the Employment, Labour and Social Affairs Committee. The Secretariat would like to thank the Delegates for their support, as well as for their comments on the report.