Tag Archive for: diversity
Advancing DEI With More Psychological Safety and Authenticity
Blog, Corporate Culture, Diversity, Fairness, Human Rights, Psychological Safety, Speak-Up and Call-Out CultureIn Part 1 of this two-part series, I wrote about identifying and removing toxic elements from diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts. However, it isn’t just DEI’s combative issues or toxic approaches that can be problematic. Crudely spotlighting diversity and asking employees to take part in the process of enhancing it can cause threats to safety . . .
Detoxifying DEI: How to Clean Up the Reality and Perception of DEI
Blog, Corporate Culture, Diversity, Fairness, Human Rights, Psychological Safety, Speak-Up and Call-Out CultureAs complaints about ill effects fuel criticism of diversity, equity, and inclusion—and companies “rebrand” their efforts to render them less obtrusive—is DEI destined to follow ESG in becoming the “latest dirty word in corporate America”?
One More Time: Why Diversity Leads To Better Team Performance
Blog, Corporate Culture, Fairness, Human Rights, Leadership
Diversity has several established benefits to team performance.
Discussions on diversity in the workplace can be heated and contentious. All too often, we see attitudes toward diversity in the workplace shift like a pendulum, as the explosion…
Why Companies Need To Defend Their Diversity Policies
Blog, Human RightsWhile the Supreme Court’s rejection of affirmative action last month in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard was focused on admissions in higher education, conservative activists are already mobilizing to extend their victory into the business world.
Navigating Polarization and Activism in the Workplace
Blog, Corporate Culture, Personality & Personnel, Speak-Up and Call-Out CultureA couple days before the World Cup in Qatar was set to kick off, FIFA, soccer’s governing body, announced a ban on beer.
Yesterday I Was Levi’s Brand President. I Quit So I Could Be Free.
Blog, Corporate Culture, Leadership, Speak-Up and Call-Out CultureWhen I traveled to Moscow in 1986, I brought 10 pairs of Levi’s 501s in my bag. I was a 17-year-old gymnast, the reigning national champion, and I was going to the Soviet Union to compete in the Goodwill Games, a rogue Olympics-level competition orchestrated by CNN founder Ted Turner while the Soviet Union and the United States were boycotting each other.
Rachel Ruttan on Business’ Role in Eroding Sacred Values
Blog, Corporate Culture, Leadership, Podcast
https://youtu.be/p-eb8L57CJk
In this conversation with Ethical Systems, Brian Gallagher speaks with Rachel Ruttan about her recent paper, "Instrumental Use Erodes Sacred Values." Across seven studies, she and her colleague probed the effects…
The Psychological Cost of Companies Sounding Ethical for Money
Blog, Corporate Culture
What happens to sacred values when people or groups look to promote or advance them for tangible gain?
In Star Wars Han tells Leia, after rescuing her from execution, “Look, I ain’t in this for your revolution and I’m not in it for…
Diversity Is Not Enough: Why Collective Intelligence Requires Both Diversity and Disagreement
Blog, Corporate Culture, Personality & Personnel
How can we ensure that teams use their diverse information to make more-intelligent collective decisions?
Teams are the backbone of critical institutions. Companies are run by top management teams, science is produced by research teams,…
How to Understand Political Polarization in the Workplace
Blog, Corporate Culture, Leadership, Podcast, Speak-Up and Call-Out Culture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg1YIZLaRKA&t=209s
In this conversation from the NeuroLeadership Institute, host David Rock speaks with Jon Haidt and Alison Taylor about the social and technological origins of our politically polarized…