Boardroom diversity | 'Racist old boys' network' shuns BAME workers from top jobs

BAME employees face constant discrimination in some of Britain’s largest businesses that are run by an ‘institutionally racist old boys' network’.

Independent research carried out by the Royal Bank of Scotland’s (RBS) Managing Director and Head of HR, Anuranjita Kumar, has found that BAME employees are 90% less likely to land a Boardroom job than white, middle-class applicants.

The research suggested that BAME candidates stand only an eight per cent chance of promotion to a chief executive, chief financial officer or other senior director role as a result of racial prejudice and nepotism that takes place in workplaces across the UK and internationally.

Kumar’s research found that however capable they may be, BAME applicants were consistently overlooked because their cultures and religious beliefs were seen to be at odds with most company’s ‘private members’ club mentality’.