Do DE&I training programs work to increase the right kinds of indicators?
Does DE&I training result in less racism, or more?
Can we sift through the noise and separate the politically correct from the productive?
Links & References:
White House Memo on cancel diversity training.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/M-20-34.pdf (https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/M-20-34.pdf)
Harvard Business Review:
https://hbr.org/2016/07/why-diversity-programs-fail (https://hbr.org/2016/07/why-diversity-programs-fail) "Do people who undergo training usually shed their biases? Researchers have been examining that question since before World War II, in nearly a thousand studies. It turns out that while people are easily taught to respond correctly to a questionnaire about bias, they soon forget the right answers. The positive effects of diversity training rarely last beyond a day or two, and a number of studies suggest that it can activate bias or spark a backlash. Nonetheless, nearly half of midsize companies use it, as do nearly all the Fortune 500."
https://hbr.org/2019/07/does-diversity-training-work-the-way-its-supposed-to (https://hbr.org/2019/07/does-diversity-training-work-the-way-its-supposed-to) "We found very little evidence that diversity training affected the behavior of men or white employees overall—the two groups who typically hold the most power in organizations and are often the primary targets of these interventions."
Critical Race Theory:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory)
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