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Why Fair Employment Practices Make Business Sense

Posted on by Alina
Fair-Employment

A Progressive & Inclusive Employment Practices

It goes without saying that progressive and inclusive hiring procedures promote a positive workplace culture and improve organisational performance.

Work is always a collaborative effort between teams of employees as well as between employers and employees. Therefore, in order to promote efficient business operations and harness innovation and creativity, employers and employees both stand to benefit from the creation of pleasant workplace environments that encourage diversity.
Employers who adhere to the Tripartite Guidelines for Fair and Progressive Employment Practices and Singapore’s Fair Consideration Framework are committed to fair employment practices, which promote a supportive work environment that fosters good coworker relations, ethical hiring procedures, and career development opportunities.
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Pledge to ethical employment standards

Increased number of countries have taken steps towards the ratification of international labour standards relevant to fair recruitment. For instance, 29 Trade Associations and Chambers (TACs), which represent business communities in various industry sectors and are governed by the Singapore Business Federation (SBF), issued a joint statement on January 19, 2021, urging their member companies to continue to be committed to fairly hiring applicants based on merit and developing their workforce.

Thus, job seekers can apply for positions in good faith and have confidence that the hiring process will be fair and based on merit to choose the best applicant to fill the position, taking into account the applicant’s values, character, competence, skills, and potential contribution without regard to race, gender, or age bias.
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Merits of having diverse workforce talents

Businesses that make an effort to employ from a global talent pool that is diverse will have access to a wealth of viewpoints and experiences that contribute to a firm’s long-term success. Additionally, doing so will support the growth of workers’ capabilities, equity, and inclusive integration.

Key benefits that foster company growth

Fair hiring policies contribute to creating a strong basis for advancement, success, and growth. Businesses reap a number of advantages when they adopt and uphold the principles of fair and equitable hiring and develop a reputation for innovative and inclusive human resource practices, including:

  • Accessing a larger, more varied talent pool.
  • Enhance workforce productivity and employee retention
  • Encouraging innovation and creativity by fostering interaction between employees.
  • Launching innovative goods and services even more quickly than competitors.
  • Going beyond the defined geographical markets. Expanding the business through network of the diverse workforce.

Fair Employment Strategy and Approach

 businesses may employ to ensure fair hiring procedures and ensure that successful applicants are judged only on their qualifications, experience, and aptitude for the position. Let’s look at some worthy approaches to how this can be achieved:

  • A thorough review of the text and content of job advertisements to make sure that inclusive language is used to describe the duties and responsibilities of the position.
  • Focusing on evaluating candidates’ work-relevant skills, and competencies for the position – Strict application of an interview and evaluation procedure that exclusively assesses applicants’ work-relevant talents, credentials in their fields, the required amount of years of experience, and value add they bring to the business.
  • A non-discrimination selection criterion needs to be established. The criteria has to be precise and unambiguously stated. 
  • Put together a diverse hiring panels to conduct interviews. The creation of independent hiring panels should be made up of qualified consultants and executives who are psychologically in line with the ideology of fair hiring and are not beholden to senior personnel in the organization.
  • Standardisation of the Interview practices from questions to procedures so that all candidates would be evaluated and chosen based on the same selection criteria.
  •  Having a fair background check procedure that ensures all applicants are given equal opportunity.
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Workforce upskilling and lifelong learning

Every company should have procedures and guidelines in place to facilitate employee growth and development. This strategic goal guarantees that the workforce will always be as knowledgeable and productive as that of advanced industrial nations throughout the long run.
Companies must retain their openness to the world and access to the global talent pool in order to attract international investment and improve the skills and capabilities of the regional or domestic workforce. Then, in order to upskill the local workforce and ensure sustainable development, firms can plan for and encourage the transfer of specialized technical knowledge or crucial business skills to local personnel.

Additionally, employees must also be proactive in volunteering for and accepting opportunities for training, self-development, and work enrichment (including accepting challenging postings abroad). Working overseas has many personal benefits, such as expanding one’s horizons and cultural knowledge, deepening empathy for people all over the world, and increasing awareness of one’s social responsibilities, not just for Singapore but for the entire world.

Conclusion

More companies are embracing the aforementioned fair recruiting and employment philosophy, ideas, practices, and viewpoints. Therefore, leave the tedious hiring process to us, we won’t let you done. Rest assured we will find you a candidate that best suits your company’s business needs. Reach out to us or alternatively subscribe to our newsletters to be updated on the latest practice fair hiring in order to improve the business environment and bolster Singapore’s standing as a thriving economic center.

Alina