In an economic environment it seems obvious to measure the success of initiatives – after all, resources flow into the respective activities. Meanwhile, how success should show itself remains controversial. In the context of the women’s quota, the fulfilment of these goals is already regarded by some as the achievement of goals and thus as […]
Current research into Unconscious Bias shows that the awareness for and concern about expressing bias does actually help to accept feedback about bias and to take bias-reducing actions. The study conducted by Perry, Murphy and Dovidio (in press) found that white participants with high scores on a newly developed Bias Awareness Scale were likely to […]
Ideologically motivated murders, heated campaigns for and against same-sex marriage and a plan to establish separate bus lines for Jews and Palestinians in the West Bank. Does it need to get any more obvious that some key Diversity topics have been neglected for too many years and now surface forcefully? We are paying a high […]
Doing a lot on Diversity & Inclusion tend to be considered a good thing. It seems to be a way of showing commitment. In addition, if the communication is effective – or at least colourful or with cool wording – many people get impressed. But: are we paying enough attention on achieving the desired impact […]
Research continues to reveal that the biggest challenge for different generations in working together is communication. Not only that language evolves quickly, also the visual items used are changing dramatically from one cohort to the next. A powerful web-based tool now offers everyone the possibility to create hipster-compatible icons and slogans that will resonate with […]
Hundreds of D&I ‘good’ practices are tempting companies to adopt them for their own organisation. This can easily fail and in a foreword to a current special edition on ‘Diversity Management’ by the newspaper DIE WELT, Diversity Guru, Michael Stuber, explains not only why a copy-and-paste approach is bound to flop but also how it […]
After 20 years of Diversity Management, the list of standard, must-have programmes has become longer and longer, while the search for best practices – in the true sense of the word – has become tough. For one part, we should be glad about this development as it illustrates that D&I is now much more common […]
Business talks so much about globalisation that we could easily assume that we live and work in a global reality. And in many respects, there is truth in universal aspects of everyday life – and we may or may not like the fact that business hotels, city centre shops and even restaurants or theatre shows […]
The Republic of South Africa was the first country to ban discrimination based on all the core dimensions of Diversity, gender, race, age, disability, religion and sexual orientation, not just in the Civil Code but in their Constitution. This is one of the many enduring elements supporting diversity, respect and inclusion which the grand personality […]
The best established mantra about successful D&I work refers to executive leadership, role modelling and to sponsoring D&I departments and agendas. And the absence of this has become an easy excuse when progress becomes slow. That implies two questions: Who is responsible for providing the impetus so that top management support will be displayed and […]
