P Gompers and S Kovvali – Harvard Business Review – July/August 2018 Statistical data in a number of areas gives support to the view that harnessing the benefits of diverse thinking brings about positive real world results While there are good grounds for believing that diverse organisations tend to generate a broader range of ideas, …
B Jones and D Rock – Psychology Today – May 2018 This article offers an interesting new perspective on how to mitigate the biases which creep into performance appraisals. Biases infiltrate themselves into many of the decisions we make daily. Recognising this means we need to guard against the harmful results flowing to ourselves and …
V Hunt, S Prince, S Dixon-Fyle, L Yee – McKinsey & Company Report – January 2018 This new research report by McKinsey is a follow-up to their 2015 report “Why Diversity Matters” and extends the mounting body of evidence supporting diversity as a means to better organisational performance. Significantly it is an attempt to determine whether the perceived benefits …
Artificial Intelligence (AI): a branch of computer science which enables a machine to imitate intelligent human behaviour and which through artificial neural networks is capable of learning through experience. The arrival of the technological wave created by artificial intelligence has elicited a huge number of assessments and predictions as to what this means for the …
Recently, we have seen many criticisms of inclusion and diversity training programs, which sadly may not be a surprise to many who have had to sit through such programs with too much “fluffy” content and telling people what to do – little of which is absorbed or acted upon by the participants. There is good news however, because research in neuroscience and cognitive …
The journey to achieving more diverse and inclusive organisations can often meet unforeseen barriers. On Monday last week a trial began in Boston which could have far-reaching implications for colleges in the United States (and possibly beyond) which are confronted with a host of objections to the way in which most of them seek to enhance …
There has been much speculation and confusion about the contents and the implications of the Ruddock report into religious freedom, portions of which seemed to have been leaked to the media over the past couple of days. It is premature to criticise it until the full report is released to the public and once it …
Battle lines have been predictably been drawn following the allegation by Christine Blasey Ford that she suffered a violent sexual assault at the hands of Brett Kavanaugh some 35 years ago and his emphatic denial that anything of the sort took place. Before either of the two protagonists have actually testified, large swathes of the American public have made it …
The cartoon by Mark Knight, published by the Herald Sun newspaper, depicting an on-court rant by Serena Williams, has, as most people now know, evoked a storm of criticism, particularly from the African-American community. A defiant doubling-down from the cartoonist himself as well as the newspaper ensued; followed by a spirited defence of the cartoon from a …
True leaders foster a sense of inclusion amongst employees and create an ethos of inclusivity in their organisations. Possessing these skills is a mark of success. But only independent and reliable measurement fed by sources who really know can tell a leader if he or she is inclusive Ever heard of the Dunning-Kruger effect? It …