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Diversity in hiring can encourage diverse ideas in workplace
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NEW YORK — A sound business case can be made for inclusion and diversity within business organizations, and several insurance industry leaders offered suggestions on how to implement and leverage workplace diversity.
The speakers made their comments during a panel discussion at the Business Insurance 2014 Women to Watch Leadership Conference and Awards in New York.
“There is impressive research supporting the idea that when you have cognitive diversity, people who think differently, you get greater innovation,” said Corbette Doyle, lecturer on organizational leadership in the Department of Leadership, Policy and Organizations at Vanderbilt University's Peabody College in Nashville, Tennessee.
“When you have complex issues, you need people who have different ways of thinking through the problem,” Ms. Doyle said. “When you get demographic diversity, you tend to get cognitive diversity.”
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