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2️⃣ Diversity
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Written by Jessie Walsh
Updated over 4 months ago

🚇 On this page: Index of metrics contained in the Diversity chapter.

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Overview

Diverse teams are more innovative because they can attack complex problems from different directions. The metrics in the Diversity Chapter currently center around age and gender diversity in your organization and teams.


Access the Diversity Chapter

You can access the Stories page through the link in the global navigation bar at the top of every page. You can also use the search box to find a specific metric or story chapter.

The top of the Stories page will display all the available Chapters so you can click the one you want to see.


Diversity metrics

Overview metrics

Diversity overview metrics are metrics you should be able to see at a glance. Metrics are now in textual form. By clicking bolded text or the avatars, a list with names, teams/locations, and the date of starting/leaving will appear.

⏳ Overview metrics are not affected by the time filter.

Metrics included:

  • Median age

    Median age of all employees in the organization.

  • Women

    Percentage of women in the organization.

  • Women in leadership

    Percentage of women in leadership positions.

  • Nationality

  • Different nationalities among employees.

Workforce Essentials

Age distribution

A metric within the Diversity story chapter.

Definition

Age Distribution is one of the metrics that explain the element of diversity in a company and it shows which percentage of employees belong to which age group.

Insight to

It can help identify demographic risks the firm faces with retiring and ageing employees. If they're difficult to replace the organization faces capacity or productivity risk.

How we calculate this

Age Distribution(T) = Distribution(Employee Age for each Employee working at time T)

The proportion of employees in successive age groups out of all employees in your company.

Source data

Extracted from HRIS:

  • Employees age

  • Employees employment start date

  • Employees employment start date

🚑 Problem with source data? See Data Health 101 for remedies.

Available filters - slice and dice your data by one or multiple filters

  • Department

  • Division

  • Employment type

  • Location

  • Manager

  • Role

  • Team

Toolbar

  • Timeline (historical) and Breakdown (sum total) graph view

  • Percentage and Absolute numbers

  • Customizable Time filter

  • Group by available filters

  • Sort by: Value, Alphabetically, Ascending, Descending

Table View, Employee View and Targets

  • Are not currently available for this metric

Download

  • Download metric graph as PNG and SVG, or metric data (with filters applied) as CSV file

Gender distribution

A metric within the Diversity story chapter.

Definition

Gender distribution is one of the most basic metrics that explain the simple element of diversity in a company. You should use gender distribution with different filters to explore the share of women in managerial roles and various other departments. Explore historical trends to note any changes in gender distribution as your company grows and develops.

Insight to

It indicates changes in gender distribution as your company grows and develops. Use gender distribution with different filters to explore the share of women in managerial roles and various other departments.

How we calculate this

Gender Distribution(T) = Distribution(Employee Gender for each Employee working at time T)

The proportion of employees identifying as a certain gender out of all employees in your company.

Source data

Extracted from HRIS:

  • Employee’s gender

  • Employee’s employment start date

  • Employee’s employment end date

🚑 Problem with source data? See Data Health 101 for remedies.

Available filters - slice and dice your data by one or multiple filters

  • Age

  • Department

  • Division

  • Employment type

  • Race/Ethnicity

  • Generation

  • Location

  • Manager

  • Role

  • Team

  • Tenure

Toolbar

  • Timeline (historical) and Breakdown (sum total) graph view

  • Percentage and Absolute numbers

  • Customizable Time filter

  • Group by available filters

  • Sort by: Value, Alphabetically, Ascending, Descending

Table View, Employee View and Targets

  • Are not currently available for this metric

Download

  • Download metric graph as PNG and SVG, or metric data (with filters applied) as CSV file

Women in Leadership

A metric within the Diversity story chapter.

Definition

Women in Leadership metric helps you track the representation of women in different levels of management. Frontline managers manage individual contributors, Middle managers lead frontline managers while top management has strategic responsibility and leads mid-managers.

Insight to

To get a closer perspective on diversity in your company you want to explore whether you have an even spread of women in leadership positions relative to their overall representation in the company.

How we calculate this

Women in Leadership Distribution(T) = Distribution(Female Employees per Management Level out of Total Headcount at time T)

Source data

Extracted from HRIS:

  • Employee’s gender

  • Employee’s employment start date

  • Employees employment end date

🚑 Problem with source data? See Data Health 101 for remedies.

Available filters - slice and dice your data by one or multiple filters

  • Department

  • Division

  • Location

  • Team

Toolbar

  • Timeline (historical) and Breakdown (sum total) graph view

  • Percentage and Absolute numbers

  • Customizable Time filter

  • Group by available filters

  • Sort by: Value, Alphabetically, Ascending, Descending

Table View, Employee View and Targets

  • Are not currently available for this metric

Download

  • Download metric graph as PNG and SVG, or metric data (with filters applied) as CSV file

Ethnic Distribution

A metric within the Diversity story chapter.

Definition

Ethnic Distribution indicates the level of diversity in race and culture.

Insight to

Leadership ethnic and cultural diversity is correlated with profitability and therefore should be observed and correlated with the financial performance of the organization.

How we calculate this

Ethnic Distribution(T) = Distribution(Employee Ethnicity for each Employee working at time T)

Source data

Extracted from HRIS:

🚑 Problem with source data? See Data Health 101 for remedies.

Available filters - slice and dice your data by one or multiple filters

  • Department

  • Division

  • Employment type

  • Location

  • Manager

  • Role

  • Team

Toolbar

  • Timeline (historical) and Breakdown (sum total) graph view

  • Percentage and Absolute numbers

  • Customizable Time filter

  • Group by available filters

  • Sort by: Value, Alphabetically, Ascending, Descending

Table View, Employee View and Targets

  • Are not currently available for this metric

Download

  • Download metric graph as PNG and SVG, or metric data (with filters applied) as CSV file

Women Attrition Rate

A metric within the Diversity story chapter.

Definition

Women Attrition Rate metric helps you track the relationship of women who left the organization compared to the entire workforce and to women representation in the organizational headcount.

Insight to

To get a closer perspective on diversity in your company you want to explore closed the attrition rate of women relative to their overall representation in the company. This can indicate whether you are progressing towards your DEI objectives or still struggle to retain women despite the efforts invested in the hiring process to diversify. Also, pay attention to the job levels from which women usually leave the most.

How we calculate this

Count female employees leaving the company (voluntary and involuntary) for a given period. The Women Attrition Rate has two different calculations:

  • The first one is calculated by dividing the number of female employees who left the company in a given period by the average headcount number of employees for the same period.

  • The second one is calculated by dividing the number of female employees who left the company in a given period by the average headcount number of female employees for the same period.

The average number of employees is calculated by summing the headcounts at the start and the end of the selected time period and dividing by 2.

Source data

Extracted from HRIS.

🚑 Problem with source data? See Data Health 101 for remedies.

Available filters - slice and dice your data by one or multiple filters

  • Age

  • Department

  • Division

  • Employment type

  • Race/Ethnicity

  • Gender

  • Generation

  • Location

  • Manager

  • Role

  • Team

  • Tenure

Toolbar

  • Timeline (historical) and Breakdown (sum total) graph view

  • Percentage and Absolute numbers

  • Customizable Time filter

  • Group by available filters

  • Sort by: Value, Alphabetically, Ascending, Descending

Table View, Employee View and Targets

  • Are not currently available for this metric

Download

  • Download metric graph as PNG and SVG, or metric data (with filters applied) as CSV file


Source of Metrics

Metrics for the Diversity chapter are extracted from your HRIS.

The metrics will only show up if you connected the required external data sources to your People Analytics account. If the data required to construct a specific metric is missing, a placeholder is displayed instead:

☝️ Example of a placeholder pointing out a missing metric

If you need help, follow the instructions to connect external data sources to your People Analytics account.

🚑 To get accurate and reliable metrics and filters, make sure your source data is in good shape. See more in the Data Health 101 guide.

Count female employees leaving the company (voluntary and involuntary) for a given period. The Women Attrition Rate has two different calculations:

  • The first one is calculated by dividing the number of female employees who left the company in a given period by the average headcount number of employees for the same period.

  • The second one is calculated by dividing the number of female employees who left the company in a given period by the average headcount number of female employees for the same period.

The average number of employees is calculated by summing the headcounts at the start and the end of the selected time period and dividing by 2.


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