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Finally Some Robust Research into “Diversity Training” – It’s Not Promising
- Digory 8y agoThis is somewhat similar to findings that "sex harassment" training does nothing to reduce harassment. But it is interesting that this study is only 38.5% American; presumably international businesses aren't training for US legal reasons.
- unsurprising 8y agono shit
- ThrustVectoring 8y agoThe point of "diversity training" is that so when a company gets sued for discrimination, their HR department has documentation that the malefactor involved underwent diversity training. This proves that the issue is with specific people (who are now fired) not following policy, rather than something systemic. If you want to know whether diversity training works, you have to first identify what it is supposed to do - that is, reduce corporate liability.
- Starknaked 8y agoAs with the liability of health and safety training and policy what they leave out is the part where it's often impossible to maintain targets and follow offical policy at the same time. If you really followed all offical policy to the letter you'd soon be fired for a lack of productivity.
- duxup 8y agoI'm kinda skeptical about how they measure effectiveness. They use a survey, is that really an indicator of what might happen under any given real life situation? Having said that I also am skeptical of the diversity training I have received as more often than not it seemed more like a finger wagging session and / or a gee whiz sort of Ted talk about bias, but with nothing to offer as far as solutions go.