Corporate Practice / Strategien und Instrumente
23. May 2023 || by Michael Stuber || Corporate Practice / Strategien und Instrumente, Editorial, Events ||
DE&I work can sometimes be summarised as ‘we celebrate minorities and blame others for the slow pace of change’. While it feels good and fuels belonging, the critical way to comment and demand progress does not seem to enlist support from those we want to win.
Tags: english, holistic, inclusion
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17. January 2023 || by Michael Stuber || Corporate Practice / Strategien und Instrumente, Newsletter, Politics ||
Standing up for your case has a long tradition in Diversity. Today, media amplify various forms of activism and DE&I is increasingly perceived as a personalised or political form of engagement – rather than a future-oriented way of supporting organisational priorities. Read about unwanted side-effects of this. DE&I 2023 Trilogy (part 2) The roots of […]
Tags: english, holistic
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13. December 2022 || by Michael Stuber || Corporate Practice / Strategien und Instrumente, Events, HR ||
Diversity seems to naturally focus on differences and separation can intensify when adding an international and hence intercultural dimension. Global corporations, on the other hand, require consistency across their organisations and also need D&I approaches that are universally applicable. An expert event discussed the related dilemma.
Tags: english, globality internationality
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22. November 2022 || by Michael Stuber || Corporate Practice / Strategien und Instrumente, HR, Newsletter ||
Should the definition of Diversity include people that explicitly reject some aspects of DE&I? Or should Inclusion demand reciprocity from everyone who requests to be valued and heard? Or do both Diversity and Inclusion have to be all-encompassing? What may sound like a no-brainer turns out to unfold as a deep ideological divide, which has […]
Tags: english, holistic
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19. April 2022 || by Michael Stuber || Corporate Practice / Strategien und Instrumente, Newsletter ||
Are numerous likes from followers indicative of valuable, inspiring content? Do many participants illustrate the impact of a D&I initiative? Is positive feedback at a DEI meeting confirming your DEI strategy design? As a critical D&I engineer, I see a need to look at different DEI target groups and related objectives in the first place. […]
Tags: age, english, holistic
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2. February 2022 || by Michael Stuber || Corporate Practice / Strategien und Instrumente, Culture & Leadership, Editorial ||
One of the shared beliefs in D&I appears to be that issues from the past will be resolved with new values, generations and business approaches. Does this hope withstand reality and evidence checks?
Tags: english, holistic
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10. November 2021 || by Michael Stuber || Corporate Practice / Strategien und Instrumente, Media Features, Newsletter ||
Both Diversity activists and rationalists have been relentlessly exploring and explaining the need to overcome monocultures – particularly in today’s complex business contexts. What began as a joint effort has become – at times – a fight over narratives, followers and the prerogative of interpretation. Less divisiveness and polarisation – even within DEI – is […]
Tags: english, ethnicity origin race, gender, holistic, top5
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27. April 2021 || by Michael Stuber || Corporate Practice / Strategien und Instrumente, Media Features ||
For sad reasons, RacialEquity became a focus topic (once more) in recent years and months. Journalists from the DW TV explore corporate responses in the field – on both side of the Atlantic – including a 4-minute summary on European specifics.
Tags: english, ethnicity origin race
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4. February 2021 || by Michael Stuber || Corporate Practice / Strategien und Instrumente, Editorial ||
Diversity acknowledges the human factor in professional and business processes, aiming at improving outcomes for people and organisations. The human mechanism of introversion requires special attention these days. Specifically including in D&I.
Tags: english, holistic
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21. December 2020 || by Michael Stuber || Corporate Practice / Strategien und Instrumente, Culture & Leadership, Publications ||
Racism and other issues remain unresolved and we must therefore accelerate systemic change. This, however, requires us to learn and unlearn. The online maganzine TwentyThirty dedicates an entire series to this aspect.
Tags: english, holistic, top5
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