Google's workforce is 70% male and 61% white. Google acknowledges this lack of diversity and has taken steps to improve it, including donating $40 million to bring computer science education to women and girls. Google also recognizes the importance of inclusion and the benefits of diversity, including increased revenues from capturing a larger market and improved performance when employees can be themselves. Google is working to broaden its recruiting, encourage workshops to address biases, and invest $150 million in diversity initiatives.

1. Diversity in Google
By Kelsey Szabo

2. Article
• Diversity, Inclusion, and Culture: Google and Zappos’ Set the tone by
Josh Bersin.
• Article touched on Diversity in both organizations or the lack there of.
• Why having a lack of diversity is a problem?

3. Google Demographics
• 70% Men and 30% Women
• 61% White, 30% Asian, 3% Hispanic, 2% Black, 4% Two or more races.
• Google speaks on lack of diversity and why. Speaking on lack of
education opportunities for Minorities and women.
• Google has given $40 Million to organizations to bring computer and
science education for women and girls

4. Google Demographics
• “We’ve always been reluctant to publish numbers about the
diversity of our workforce at Google. We now realize we were
wrong, and that it’s time to be candid about the issues. Put
simply, Google is not where we want to be when it comes to
diversity, and it’s hard to address these kinds of challenges if
you’re not prepared to discuss them openly, and with the facts.”

5. Lack of Diversity
• While Google has an extreme lack of diversity for such a culturally
aware organization they have taken steps to further there diversity.
• First off by releasing there numbers/demographics. Many
organizations are very reluctant to show these to the public.
• Second by having diversity programs
• Third by donating money to help further Women/Girls education

6. Why a problem for Google?
• Inclusion factor matters.
• Do employees feel welcome?
• Do employees feel important?
• Does everyone have opportunity to be heard?
• If you look or dress differently are you welcome?

7. Benefits of Diversity in Workplace
•https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tGjgRwgAeo

8. Why Diversity helps organization? - Video
• Revenues Rise
• Have a larger opportunity to capture a larger market
• Increase performance when you can be yourself
• Organizations with gender diversity have higher sales, even if women
are not leaders of the organization.

9. Why Diversity helps? - Continued

10. Things Organizations can do
• Interviewing and Hiring guidelines
• Employment branding programs
• Employee resource groups
• Mentoring programs

11. Five Steps to make Workplace more Diverse
1. Assess and define meanings of diversity applicable to your
environment.
2. Develop scenarios documenting challenges experienced as as a
result of each others assumptions beliefs, behaviors, biases,
prejudice, and values.
3. Conduct a SWOT analysis involving various stakeholders in your
organization and establish collaborative ranking of their responses
regarding matters of diversity.

12. Five Steps to make Workplace more Diverse –
Continued
4. Identify benefits of diversity and how to integrate those towards
organizational success in your agency’s mission, vision, goails, and
objectives.
5. Propose strategic diversity solutions as a holistically planned activity
in the life of your organization.

13. Having a Multi-Cultural Organization
• Start with a first generation affirmative action
• Being a second generation affirmative action
• End with achieving a multi cultural organization

14. How to develop Multi-Cultural Organization

15. Ways Google is becoming more Diverse
• Broadening what schools Google recruits at.
• Urging applicants to take workshops to lower cultural biases
• Has released free workshops for teachers to have education
opportunities on computer science.
• Investing $150 Million in Diversity initiatives

16. How Google Addresses Co-Culture
• Diversity Core Program – Blog like program where you may connect
with someone with in your diversity group.
• Gives you opportunity to join a diversity group even if you don’t
identify within, but you hold to same values that people in the group
have.

17. Diversity Programs
• Asian Google Network
• Black Googler Network
• Filipino Google Network
• Gayglers
• Google American Indian Network
• Women@Google

18. Diversity Programs - Continued
• Google Veterans Network
• Greyglers
• Hispanic Google Network
• Indus Google Network
• Mosaic
• Disability Alliance

19. Work Cited
• Diversity: Workplace Benefits of Equality and Inclusion around
Race, Gender and Sexuality. Youtube, 22 June 2015. Web. 14
Nov. 2016.
• Berlin, Josh. "Diversity, Inclusion, and Culture: Google and
Zappos' Set ..." N.p., 30 May 2014. Web. 14 Nov. 2016.
• @google. "Diversity - Google." Diversity - Google. N.p., n.d.
Web. 14 Nov. 2016.

20. Work Cited
• Sullivan, Gail. "Google Statistics Show Silicon Valley Has a Diversity
Problem." Washington Post. The Washington Post, 29 May 2014.
Web. 14 Nov. 2016.
• @google. "Getting to Work on Diversity at Google." Official Google
Blog. N.p., 2014. Web. 14 Nov. 2016.
• Mehra, Bharat. "Five Steps to Making Your Organization More
Culturally Diverse." University of Texas Knoxville. N.p., n.d. Web. 14
Nov. 2016.