Implementing organisational change for workplace diversity in transport organisations

The transport sector is highly masculinised and lacking in diversity, with few women or those from ethnic groups rising to key positions. This creates a culture where the needs of marginalised groupsare not understood or considered. Evidence shows increasing workplace diversity is beneficial in improving decision making, performance and developing wider social awareness. Organisational changes across the Transport Business Ecosystem will help deliver the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development which requires consideration of women’s role in the green economy, and sustainable development.
Providing a replicable methodology which encourages gender diversity in organizations is a significant challenge, which will have enormous impact on women as employees and transport users. In this paper, we share how we have applied key learnings from our work on organisational change in local authorities conducted in the in H2020 CIVITAS SUITS project (Nienaber et al, 2020) to transport organisations to foster behavioural change that transforms a masculine dominant organisational culture to a “gender-balanced” culture.