Systematically ensuring diversity: Science in human decisions

Workforce diversity can mean many things depending on who you ask. Whatever it is by definition, it is an important factor in human capital management for every organization. Diversity begins with hiring, but can a big data hiring solution—highly valued for its scalability, objectivity, and predictive power—help in overcoming personal biases while building and sustaining diversity in the workforce? Research shows that an objective, data-based hiring solution can impact diversity goals as set by the organization, both by what the system does, and what it doesn’t do.