Talent Management and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Private-Sector Organizations: A Qualitative Review of Promising Practices
Abstract
The Department of the Air Force (DAF) has placed a strategic focus on improving talent management, including how to build a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive workforce. To support the DAFs efforts, RAND Project AIR FORCE was asked to (1) provide targeted benchmarks and a planning tool that will allow the DAF to evaluate the demographic composition of the active duty workforce overall and functional areas in this workforce and (2) identify practices and opportunities that the DAF can use to support diversity in critical career fields. As part of the second objective, we conducted a qualitative review of talent management programs and practices in the DAF and in the private sector. This report describes private-sector efforts to address talent management through a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) lens. Specifically, we describe examples of DEI efforts taken by several private-sector organizations that were identified as being among the top employers for diversity, supplemented by a review of available scholarly literature on promising practices in DEI talent management. The goal of this report is to share what private-sector organizations and academic literature have identified as promising practices regarding DEI and talent management that should be relevant to DAF efforts. A separate companion report provides a review of internal DAF efforts to address talent management through a DEI lens and identifies ongoing efforts in various career fields or accession sources that the DAF could consider applying more widely.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Feb 24, 2023
- Accession Number
- AD1193899
Entities
People
- Devon Hill
- Kirsten M. Keller
- Melissa Shostak
- Miriam Matthews
- Monica Rico
Organizations
- RAND Corporation