The reasons colleagues stay silent when co-workers are mistreated may not be what you assume − and it’s not what companies typically spend money on in their efforts to create a fair environment.
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Tailoring diversity training to participants’ psychological profiles boosts its effectiveness, a new study found – especially among skeptics.
Diversity training programs work best, our research shows, when they form part of a broader, ongoing company effort against intolerance.
Employers need good strategies to hire and retain more workers of color and older workers. The mandatory diversity training and requisite skills tests many of them now rely on don’t measure up.
Jane Elliott wanted her white students to experience what it was like for Black students. But instead of teaching about the root causes of racism, she engaged in cruelty and shame.
Improved awareness is a positive move for personnel, and the bottom line.
Scott Morrison and Michael McCormack have both called for empathy training for MPs. But it has all the hallmarks of a human resources fad.
Decades of diversity training has been a double-edged sword. It’s offered a chance for people of colour to advocate for more inclusive workplaces. But it’s done nothing to tackle structural racism.
We need to hold people accountable for the harms caused by biased discriminatory behaviour.
Here’s what research actually says about differences between males and females – and the question of what’s innate and what’s acquired.
The tech industry is known for having a notably non-diverse workforce. But bias training – when not validated by research that shows it works – isn’t going to solve the problem.
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Professor of Psychology; Faculty Fellow Institute for Policy Research; Professor of Management and Organizations, Northwestern University
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Professor and co-Director, Centre for Workforce Futures, Macquarie University
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Associate Professor, Human Resource Management, UNSW Canberra, UNSW
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Toronto, University of Toronto
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Professor of Sociology, Washington University in St. Louis
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Professor of Journalism, University of Iowa
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Senior Lecturer in Strategy and Entrepreneurship, University of South Wales
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Marketing and Management, Macquarie University
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Ph.D. Candidate in Psychology, Northwestern University
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Assistant Professor of Psychology, Western Washington University
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Professor of Management, Western Washington University
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Associate Professor Organization and Human Resources, University at Buffalo
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Professor of Management and Organizational Leadership, Drake University