“A new political era has corporate diversity chiefs rethinking their roles.
I hope so! You talk about a waste of resources.
The article talks about companies rethinking “how they cultivate a fair, inclusive workplace; include white men, show bottom-line results.”
You mean merit? Something tells me that is not what is meant. How about asking white men?
In other words, white men, must be welcomed to the conversation.
You think! What a novel damn idea!
“Many executives who run diversity programs also worry that the policy momentum that helped fuel their efforts is set to fade”
Let's hope so.
But I think this is a good thing if it forces diversity and inclusion to move out of compliance mode (cost center thinking) and into growth strategy mode (profit center thinking).
Profit center? I've got an idea let's get rid of diversity departments, staff and rules and regulations and see how much profit we make?
Focusing on compliance and quotas and keeping diversity and inclusion initiatives on the fringe of the organization, strips top talent of their potential, authentic identities and ability influence growth. What corporations should be doing is eliminating quotas
You got that right.
and stop viewing diverse employees and customers as “underserved people.”
I'm not exactly sure what that even means BUT having but having diverse customers has little or nothing to do with 'diverse' employees.
Unfortunately, the government has influenced that kind of thinking, conflating diversity with worker protections. I certainly believe there should be recourse for discrimination, sexual harassment, abuse, etc. But when it comes to talent in the workplace and growth in the marketplace, compliance may be well meaning but just leads to an excuse for doing the minimum
I disagree that complaince is 'well meaning'.
The end of compliance does not mean the end of diversity
I hope it does but I've got news for you. If think all these race based groups that have come into existence largely since the 60's to current day that now includes departments and office's across this country in any imaginable education facility, government of any size or corporation are going to agree to any system not based on quotas you are on drugs. If you think any of this raced based crap is going to willingly go away you have not a clue.
In a true meritocracy, all people compete freely and, in MLK Jr.'s words are judged not on the color of their skin but on the content of their character. We lost the 2nd part of that quote in our zeal to follow the first.
Trump's organization in the private sector has always followed meritocratic principles and his goal of fixing the inner cities is designed to bring real opportunity to those imprisoned in dependency. Break the cycle of dependency and bring real opportunity and respect for merit to the forefront and you directly attack the power base of those who profit on this cycle of dependency.
Bkmk
Diversity is a destructive bullshit idea.
How many diversity departments are in the Federal Government?
in the Army, Navy, AirForce, Marines, CoastGuard? In the Dept of HHS? HUD? Commerce? etc?
What if Trump dissolved all diversity offices in the US Government and announced that diversity was EVERYONE’s job?
1) There would be a need to retrain all those college grads with diversity degrees who are uniquely qualified to hold the diversity office jobs.
2) College students would start to think more about what classes are useful to take. This would make diversity profs unemployed.
3) Many unintended consequences...many of which would be for the better.
Wow, excellent response, you just saved me a lot of time typing a response. Bottom line, only prejudice people believe implement and enforce diversity in the workplace and thus pursue it because they know the darkness of their own hearts. The invisible hand of the market covers all that pychobabble of the article just fine.
Totally agree. Selecting people on the basis of anything other than ability and experience is un-American and discriminatory.
Presidential diversity damn near destroyed the American republic
What I see expressed here is that by default, human beings are white and male (and presumably Christian, Jewish, or agnostic). Therefore, diversity refers to anyone who has diverged from the default category, whether by race, skin color, gender, religion, or any combination thereof.
I think I have gained a little insight into why and how the left keeps fixating on "-isms" (e.g. racism). They are angry at white Christian/Jewish/agnostic men for not being enlightened enough to diverge from belonging to the default state of human beings. And the current obsession with "transgenderism" is an attempt to force white Christian/Jewish/agnostic men to diverge from being default humans, in a way that is analogous to their efforts to change natural human society and behavior to fit some impossible socialist utopian model.
Islam is a religion, not a race--most Muslims are white. And many peoples in south and southwest Asia and North Africa are Caucasian, although some of them have very dark, almost black, skin color.
As you read the article, swap black people for diversity and/or affirmative action when you see diversity and inclusion. It makes total sense then. The author is just too afraid to state the obvious.
The last two defense companies I worked for had contract requirements to have “highly compensated” minorities. In other words, professional people who were black. They had plenty of Asians and Hispanics but the government EEO auditor was invariably a black woman and all she was interested in was blacks. The General Dynamics facility where I worked had one black male engineer. When he was sucking my project number dry with overtime I kept a log on his comings and goings. He was in the plant less than thirty hours but billed more than forty; a federal crime. I went first to him and he accused me of racism. (I did actually turn color enough to be an American Indian.) Then I went to his (matrix organization) boss and was told to suck it up and ignore it. But it was breaking the budget I was responsible for so I went to HR and complained and implied I was going all the way to the top and maybe report him to the feds. They moved him to an overhead number and made him the diversity coordinator or some-such. He knew he was protected although he did little work. If he finished an assignment he’d put his feet up and read a magazine. Everybody else would report and start their next job. They didn’t get rid of him until they had a massive down-sizing and everybody absolutely had to pull their weight. (Incidentally, they got rid of me long before they finally let go of him. They let a lot of productive people go but held onto a lot of useless chunks of defecation until the very end.)
Because they are about as authentic as global warming studies?
“Why ignore study after study that show the diverse workplaces with gender, racial and ethnic balance perform better in so many categories? “
Because they are all bullshit.
All of them.
No matter the job, if you can afford white men, you will have a more effective work force.
Let’s combine things!
Change national policy so that H1-B (and other) visa employees DO NOT QUALIFY AND DO NOT COUNT as “diversity hires” for corporations, only US citizens do.
That is, by law, many companies must have diversity quotas, and fill them with imported labor, displacing Americans. But if these visa imports do not reduce their corporate requirements for diversity, it will really slash their incentive for hiring them in the first place.
“Our quota is that we have to hire 100 ethnic minorities, so let’s hire 100 competent Indian nationals. They won’t get seniority or raises, because we will send them back to India before they get any, and get new ones to replace them.”
“Oh, problem with that. They no longer qualify for diversity quotas. So if we hire 100 of them, we *also* have to hire 100 more American ethnic minorities. And they can’t just be janitorial staff. We can afford 100 parasites, but not 200, even if half of them actually work.”
America should be a meritocracy. Hopefully President Trump through deed and action will put America back on the path to being results oriented. IF the courts will allow it.