KEVIN A CARTER AEROSPACE DISCUSION DOCUMENT – SAMPLE D&I WORKSHHET
CLARIFY COMPANY’S KEY DISCUSS HOW D&I ARTICULATE WORK FORCE / WORK CREATE D&I INITIATIVES TO ADDRESS DEVELOP METRICS
BUSINESS GOALS AFFECTS THESE GOALS ENVIRONMENT IMPLICATIONS THESE IMPLICATIONS ALIGNED TO GOALS
1. Grow sales through Personality Do employees have the skills and competencies to • Incorporate intercultural • Orders in host countries
expand and diversify product lines and the competence as a leadership trait • Host country representation
OEM and defense customer base both in North America and abroad? • Ensure expats have a high degree of and advancement
worldwide intercultural competency to build affinity in • Host country manager and
opportunities various countries senior manager
• Strive that country heads and workforce representation
reflects host countries • Employee survey results,
#local complaints, etc.
2. Grow sales through Physical ability Does a work culture exist where customer-focused • Educate leaders to understand the
• Sales per employee
Gender innovation and execution flourish? work climates their competencies create for • # Product innovations
improved customer Race direct reports • Employee survey favorable
value Age • Hold leaders accountable to create work rating regarding respect,
Sexual orientation climates of respect, fairness, engagement fairness, engagement and
Ethnicity and achievement achievement by demographic
groups
3. Expand margins by Accent In order to be committed to reducing costs, do • Evaluate current workforce representation • # and magnitude of cost
Geo location employees believe they can make a difference and conduct under‐utilization analysis to saving ideas
reducing costs Nationality and have the opportunity to be the best they foster equal opportunity • % and # of underrepresented
Religion can be? • Conduct disparate impact analysis of job categories within
Personal habits promotions to foster equal opportunity and affirmative action plans
Education background fairness • Turnover/ Promotional/ Pay
Work experience • Conduct pay equity analysis variances
Marital status • Review succession pool diversity versus • Employee survey favorable
Parental status external availability and peers rating regarding respect,
Appearance • Review employee survey favorable ratings fairness, engagement and
regarding engagement and equal achievement by demographic
opportunity by demographic groups groups
4. Increase Job level Does a culture of continuous improvement - • Incorporate a D&I lens within the business • Employee survey favorable
Job function defined as empowered employees relentlessly acquisition and planning process rating of acquired employees
organizational Seniority committed to customer satisfaction, self- • Review job descriptions to reflect unbiased regarding respect, fairness,
capabilities and Management status improvement, productivity and airworthiness - requirements/expectations as part of engagement and achievement
capitalize on Division/Department/Unit/ exist? Are cultural differences, work styles and acquisition integration process by demographic groups
Group organizational norms being adequately addressed • Utilize employee resource groups as an on‐ • Turnover/ Promotional/ Pay
efficiencies of On‐the‐job experience during the acquisition process? boarding and skill building network for variances
acquisitions acquired employees • Inventory turns, working
• Leverage the workforce merger process to capital turnover
position diverse talent in “gateway” jobs
5. Improve Work location Does a culture of continuous improvement - • Incorporate a D&I lens within lean • Team pre, post and lagging
Other…. defined as empowered employees relentlessly initiatives to ensure leaders and managers survey
operational committed to customer satisfaction, self- have the skills to foster engaged and diverse • Team LEAN KPI improvement
productivity and improvement, productivity and airworthiness - work teams that welcome and leverage • Sales per employee
throughput by exist? Are cultural differences, work styles and inquiry, problem solving and collaboration • Product output per employee
teamwork dynamics being adequately addressed • Incorporate intercultural module within
implementing lean within LEAN training and implementation? LEAN efforts to eliminate the wastes of
initiatives unused creativity, defects, etc.