From the course: Connecting Engagement and Inclusion to a Culture of Performance

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Employee resource groups

Employee resource groups

- [Interviewer] Are you seeing a shift in how these ERGs engage and work within a larger leadership structure? - [Interviewee] I see that as well and I think it's, you know, I don't see necessarily like a wave of engagement in the larger leadership structure, I think some organizations are just better at it than others for lots of, you know, either it's a longer standing program or sort of the people at play or there are executives who have made it their business to be part of these groups. I think one of the challenges with employee resource groups is the burden as you've highlighted, sits with the population and even the effort that they put towards it, right? Like we are all in the workplace, we have, you know, everyone I speak to across public and private sector, you know, small, medium, large companies, multinational companies everyone is doing two jobs, everyone is overworked and there are just not enough hours in…

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