This “Diversity” nonsense is a major factor in America’s political, social and economic decline. The Third World is a model of failure and it is a disaster to bring its denizens here and promote them to positions of authority. They bring their failed cultures with them.
Sure - Price means nothing so long as there are people on staff who "look like them."
The headline alone told me it was a waste of my time to even read the article.
I’m a white (1/2) male manager and it’s not the diversity, it’s the lack of qualified applicants.
I worked at a place when we heard a woman was going to be hired for a different branch at our apartment. First question (by five different guys) what does she look like?
I’ve gone through miles of resumes and rarely is one a woman.
I have no idea why.
This story is total BS. In any type of survey managers will aways say they are doing things well. Only in liberal fantasyland will people say that they are doing anything less than “good”. My company used to run suverys to find out about perceptions of the company. They quit doing it after having to acknowledge company shortcomings and the wide divergence betwen management responses and employee responses. Managers saw things through rose colored glasses. And guess what...we later dropped off of a best places to work list. LOL
It is difficult to coach and improve performance when you have to deal with people that do not speak the American language and do not share the same American values. Promoting diverse talent on merit? Come on, what does diversity have to do with anything when it comes to merit? As for strong diverse teams, it is very difficult to have a strong team without communication. Words have meanings. It just happens that I use a language that was at one time unambiguous to Americans. Now my words offend diverse people. It is difficult to lead a bunch of diverse people what are pissed off at you. Lastly, it is easy to include diverse voices in decision making, but you have to be able to handle the wrath of making decisions that don't include their "voices".
What a bunch of liberal PC BS! White men are constantly being bullied by liberals in the work place. I just can't convince myself that liberal ways of doing business actually work.
The terrible white man did most of the heavy lifting and thinking to build the nation with the most freedom, most powerful economy, the highest standard of living, to win two world wars, the Cold War and put men on the moon using slide rules and electro-mechanical technology.
Most of that is already lost or on the way to destruction thanks to political correctness and the mindless quest for diversity.
Diversity leads to Detroit, Dearbornistan and eventally we’ll all be living in a Third World cess pit.
In the south, it seems now that so many government jobs are controlled by blacks. They do the hiring and they only hire blacks. A white man doesn’t stand a chance at one of these jobs now.
Gollee Gee, Gomer, WHY do you think that could be?
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45 percent of white men gave a positive rating.
Pardon me, but if only 45 percent rate it even somewhat positive, how does that translate into "Great!" ?
If only 45% of white men liked banana bread, and 21% of women liked banana bread, and even less of other minorities, then you WOULDN"T SERVE BANANA BREAD VERY OFTEN, WOULD YOU?
Or the cast of characters from any Hollywood movie from the 1940's or 1950's about WWII; The WiseGuy from Brooklyn, the Jewish Kid, The Shy Farmboy, The Wise Indian Guy from Oklahoma, and a rotating cast of other stereotypes.
And I spent a lot of time in the 1970's and 1980's in sexual harassment awareness programs for middle management, in corporate response to that pressing need and priority.
Fortunately, Bill Clinton came along and ended the liberal emphasis on sexual harassment. As Hillary would say, "What difference does it make?"
American Companies are being womanized, monetized, and anti-male’d into the ground. All decisions are based on liking each other and not what is best for the business.
Gee, why would they think that??
Alcoa has smart engineers on staff - they are going to come up with innovative products regardless of the ethnic makeup of the design teams. What they cannot (and would not dare try to) measure is the opportunity cost lost when some of their best and brightest left the company or simply put a lot less effort into their work because they were denied promotion due to some diversity officer's decision that there were already too many whites or Asians in leadership roles.
A team of the most talented engineers, regardless of color, would run rings around a "diverse" team any day and everyone knows it.
Right and wrong, works or doesn't, color or culture isn't a freaking factor at all.
I guess it might be OK if your business was just stupid ideas with no right or wrong answers. Kinda like today's tests in public schools.
This diversity crap is invented BS by groups that are math impaired. They have no useful skills and want a free ride based on skin color or garbled language skills.
They are correct. Any discussion of race or gender will get them in trouble, so they are told by their managers to avoid the topics. Not surprisingly, they just don't talk about it.
Silence can compound the issue. "You don't provide the feedback you would give to the people who look like you," Shelton said. "Ultimately you're discriminating because you're not allowing that person to improve and get ahead."
Correct again, and it's because there are whole law firms filled with attorneys prepared to litigate complaints against any manager who dares to criticize a member of a protected group. Positive criticism is vital to personal growth, and it's forbidden. "Women and minorities affected the worst." Note the code words indicating Shelton is a racist: "people who look like you."
If this is a "problem," it is one of the minorities' own making.
As a long time manager I have noted this for years. White males have the most opportunity because they are the easiest to fire. That makes them the lowest risk to hire. Business is about making money and avoiding unnecessary risk. That's why many minorities end up in government jobs where quotas matter and risk is not part of the equation.