The importance of having a diverse workforce is well-recognised – but there seems to be a rhetoric-reality gap in terms of what employers say about diversity and what's actually being achieved at an organisational level. Why does this ‘policy-implementation-reality’ gap exist? This case study clearly identifies several issues that are stopping organisations from embedding diversity initiatives.

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    Disability workforce reporting

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