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The Diversity Index: The Alarming Truth About Diversity in Corporate America...and What Can Be Done About It ReviewI read an interesting book by Susan Reed called The Diversity Index - The alarming Truth About Diverstity in Corporate America ... and What Can Be Done About it. I assume similar stats apply to Canada.
The book is full of statistics about how many women and different races are employed in various places and how that has changed over the years. I wish it also had statistics comparing the demographics in general to the overall statistics. I know where I grew up in small town Ontario, Canada, there was very little racial diversity, so it would not be reasonable to have a lot of racial diversity in most of the businesses. (of course not true of gender diversity, since half of the people were women)
I like to think of myself as gender/race blind. By this I mean that I simply want to have the best person for the position, regardless of the race or gender.
This is where it's tough because governments like to bring in quotas and introduce bureaucracy. It's tough to legislate though.
I think businesses will change when they recognize that they get more value by having diversity. One part of wisdom and maturity is accepting people with different views and backgrounds. We all tend to like and value people who are more similar to ourselves, and part of the reason we are the way we are is because we value the traits that we have. But for success, we need to be challenged.
I do not think it would feel very good for someone to get a position just because of a quota system. In my own case, I am a member of Golden Seeds, and would hate to think that I was a member just to make up a male quota of that group. (Golden Seeds invests only in female entrepreneurs)
The book starts discussing The Plan for Progress, which was the plan introduced in the 60s. This shows how companies that adopted a Plan for Progress ended up with more diversity in their companies. It ends ends with a new Plan for Progress, which has the following steps:
Excerpted from The Diversity Index: The Alarming Truth About Diversity in Corporate America...and What Can Be Done About It by Susan E. Reed. Copyright © 2012 Susan E. Reed. Published by AMACOM. Used with permission. All rights reserved.
1. They developed a core mantra that fused their diversity goals and ethical principles with their business strategy. Leaders articulated this vision in every internal speech and company communication. They demonstrated congruence.
2. They created a secure, reliable feedback system through which employees from all over the world could communicate safely and directly to a company executive, expressing their concerns over how they were being treated by other members of the company.
3. They provided diversity training to employees and fostered a culture of learning.
4. They administered 360-degree performance measurements to managers in which they were evaluated by subordinates, peers and superiors. Managers' pay was partly determined by how they were rated and how they developed diverse employees.
5. They cultivated and harvested new talent. They offered summer internship and contributed to funds that enabled underprivileged students to go to college. They widened their talent harvest to historically black and women's colleges.
6. They developed, supported, and funded extensive affinity groups. They made it mandatory for managers and officers to be involved in these groups.
7. Companies invested in local communities to improve public school education and opportunities.
8. Executives promoted women and people of color, as well as employees with an international perspective, thereby demonstrating their commitment to the core diversity mantra.
9. Chief executives opened themselves to negative feedback about what was not working by holding regular meetings with managers and employees.
10. They never stopped trying new ideas to foster integration because they realized that companies are highly changing environments.
I think it is also great for minority groups to help themselves within the group. There is a natural affinity to like people who are in the same group and it makes logical sense to help each other.
Interestingly we recently had diversity training at Canrock Ventures. And what came out of it was we needed to have social get togethers Friday afternoon. Not sure how that was arrived at...
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