Shaping the Workplace
IMD takes a leading role in shaping the future of work with a deliberate approach to embedding equity, inclusion, and diversity into our research, teaching, content, outreach, and client advisory activities.
Research
In 2022, IMD produced cutting-edge, rigorous, and relevant research addressing EI&D themes in business management. A number were published in leading academic journals, including three in FT50 leading journals:
- Ronit Kark, Alyson Meister, and Kim Peters: Now you see me, now you don’t: A conceptual model of the antecedents and consequences of leader impostorism, Journal of Management, September 2022
- Jonathan Bauweraerts, Emanuela Rondi, Paola Rovelli, Alfredo De Massis, and Salvatore Sciascia: Are family female directors catalysts of innovation in family SMEs?, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, June 2022
- Jennifer Kim and Alyson Meister: Microaggressions, interrupted: The experience and effects of gender microaggressions for women in STEM, Journal of Business Ethics, August 2022
The elea Center for Social Innovation also published a book chapter on the Gender Inequality Index.
We published seven teaching cases related to EI&D themes in 2022 including two award-winning cases:
- Lionheart Farms (Philippines) and the tree of life (Leleux et al), HEC Montreal CSR Case Writing Challenge 1st Place
- Kineer: A social marketing challenge (Turpin et al), John Molson MBA Case Writing Competition 3rd place
Also, 25 related articles were published on our thought leadership platform I by IMD.
Inclusive Future Research
In 2022, IMD completed its Inclusive Future research project, sponsored by a key client. This research exposed the evolution of inclusion and how the last three years have greatly impacted how employees experience inclusion. It offers refreshed insights into how to best measure inclusion, keeping the many recent socio-economic movements, generational shifts, and technology changes into account. In this context, our EI&D advisory team designed, together with the client, an Inclusion Net Promotor Score (iNPS). This cutting-edge tool is being rolled out globally by the client and offers tangible insight into how to progress inclusion and inclusive leadership.
Teaching
Following a review of our degree and open program curriculum, we are increasing the diversity of guest speakers, as well as protagonists in case studies, to better reflect the modern world we operate in. Program directors are encouraged to ensure a more equitable balance in their speakers, protagonists, cases, language, and examples used to ensure they reflect the world in which we operate. EI&D topics are also embedded in many leadership programs, as well as other open and custom programs. Since 2021, participants register for programs with a choice of three different gender options: female, male, and other.
Advisory
IMD is increasingly establishing itself as a thought leader in EI&D advisory work for international corporations and organizations. Whether organizations start, refresh, or elevate their EI&D initiatives, our advisory is based on rigorous research and experience with Fortune 500 companies. It offers organizations in all industries the guidance, best practice, and tools to progress.
In 2022 we held more than 20 client engagement sessions with international corporations and organizations. We also held confidential one-on-one conversations with CEOs, executive committee members, executive committee teams, top-tier groups, HR professionals, and heads of talent, learning and EI&D. Our EI&D advisory offers best-practice guidance on governance, messaging, positioning, and strategy. It is aimed at tangible and impactful results and is based on thought leadership experience. For example, we support organizations in designing a fit-for- purpose and impactful EI&D strategy.
“IMD’s EI&D advisory office delivered phenomenal EI&D development sessions. Our teams felt engaged and energized as change agents to lead our DE&I journey at Danfoss. The IMD EI&D advisory team delivered nothing but professional and top-tier advisory services for our DE&I needs. We are excited to continue our partnership with IMD next year.”
Ashley Watson, Global Head, Diversity and Inclusion, Danfoss
“In 2022, IMD finalized the research project ‘Inclusive Future’ with us and collaborated further to create an iNPS (Inclusion Net Promoter Score), based on the research. I truly enjoyed the intellectual, stimulating discussions with the EI&D Senior Advisor and Research Fellow. The research was scientifically thorough with many practical applications, which we are now in the process of implementing across the globe. The collaboration has been very fruitful, and the thought-leading output has helped us to make a next step with regards to inclusion at PMI.”
Silke Muenster, Chief Diversity Officer, PMI
Outreach
IMD also supports clients in their EI&D journey and demonstrates thought leadership by giving presentations at events.
Examples of external presentations Included a session with Medair top leadership, and the Network of Corporate Academies session with Scandinavian CHROs.