DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION IN MINING INDUSTRY-A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF NALCO & VEDANTA IN ODISHA
Received: 25.04.2021; Revised: 28.06.2021, Accepted: 05.07.2021, Published Online: 31.07.2021
Sanjay Pattnaik
Faculty of Management Studies, Sri Sri University, Cuttack India
Email: sanjaypattnaikus@yahoo.com
Namita Rath
Faculty of Management Studies, Sri Sri University, Cuttack India
Corresponding Author Email: namita.r@srisriuniversity.edu.in
Alok Kumar Sahai
Faculty of Management Studies, Sri Sri University, Cuttack India
Email: alok.s@srisriuniversity.edu.in
Mining and manufacturing industries are characterised by a dominance of males in the workforce. Women in executive and non-executive cadres fare less favoured due to the nature of work. This paper attempts to study Gender diversity, Equity and Inclusion in two mining companies in India, one each from public and private sectors. Responses were collected from the employees of the two companies and Likert type forced-choice questions were included for measuring the response against Gender Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. The data was analysed graphically and a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) index was developed to measure the scores of the companies. DEI index takes a value between 1 and -1 with 1 representing the best DEI situation while -1 denotes the worst possible DEI scenario. We found that the DEI index for NALCO was -0.3240 while that of Vedanta was 0.1364. These scores were largely due to a favourable number of gender diversity. Both the companies fared poorly in terms of Equity and Inclusion.
Keywords: Gender Diversity, Inclusion, Equity, Mining, DEI Index.