New White Paper from Darden Executive Education & Lifelong Learning Offers Actionable Steps to Normalize Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Organizations
In a new white paper, professors at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business discuss common barriers to real progress in DEI and offer evidence-based steps that can help transform DEI efforts from siloed side projects to core systems embraced throughout an organization’s culture and practices.
Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts in the corporate world remain a vortex of passion, malaise, hope and cynicism, despite overwhelming evidence that diverse and inclusive workplaces simply perform better. When the research science, consensus on the morally right thing to do, and the bottom line all agree that diversity leads to better outcomes, one might think getting it right makes top billing on the priority list.
Even so, many organizations face internal and external resistance when it comes to these efforts.
In a new white paper, professors at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business discuss common barriers to real progress in DEI and offer evidence-based steps that can help transform DEI efforts from siloed side projects to core systems embraced throughout an organization’s culture and practices.
https://connect.darden.virginia.edu/ee-normalizing-dei-whitepaperThe white paper, which features insights from Professors Laura Morgan Roberts, Martin N. Davidson, Toni Irving, Lili Powell, and Melissa Thomas-Hunt, includes discussion of the major barriers to effective DEI initiatives and explanation of five paths to better results, including:
Building a More Inclusive Hiring Process
Designing for Intelligent Inclusion
Enabling Mindful Conversations
Empowering Mentorship and Sponsorship
Leveraging Identity
Download the free white paper, and further explore the topics in Darden Executive Education & Lifelong Learning’s Leading Diversity program. The first-of-its-kind immersive program is designed to support Chief Diversity Officers and anyone leading diversity initiatives.
Darden Executive Education & Lifelong Learning is provided by the University of Virginia Darden School Foundation.
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