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Make it clear that picking the best people for the team is part of the job. Excluding good candidates or including worse ones is a decrease in job performance,

by sp332 4y ago

Make it clear that picking the best people for the team is part of the job. Excluding good candidates or including worse ones is a decrease in job performance, and will be a negative in performance reviews. Decreased pay, demotion, and termination are all on the table here because this is materially hurting the company.

flyinglizard 4y ago
Does team performance always suffer though? I've seen teams with relatively homogenous backgrounds that are very effective because of that. I've seen teams with diverse background that suffer due to some disconnect. Diversity is promoted for societal good, not necessarily as a local performance optimization.
- wreath 4y ago
  I worked in two teams where we all had different ethnic bckground but otherwise very similar in personalities, interests etc. work and conflict resolution was much easier especially that we had a competent manager. Same company but different team with “diverse personalities” was an awful mess
- yrgulation 4y ago
  How does this happen if not due to poor management? I had transgender, straight, gay, catholic, white, black, chinese, east european, muslim and hindu people all working in the same team without a “disconnect” due to their backgrounds. We agreed to accommodate specific needs of each of them and not once had one an issue with another. This was in the uk. We did have issues with our german branch tho but hr dealt with it rather nicely and it didnt happen again, showing that proper management can sort out discriminatory … “disconnects”.
  - flyinglizard 4y ago
    There's a chasm between "not having issue with another" and "high performance". Military infantry units are trained to be high performance and cohesive despite different backgrounds but it takes years in awful conditions.
    - yrgulation 4y ago
      In all honesty we did have awful conditions. We were given a few months to transition from a monolith to microservices or else we’d have to keep maintaining a decade old codebase written in php!
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by sp332 4y ago

flyinglizard 4y ago

Does team performance always suffer though? I've seen teams with relatively homogenous backgrounds that are very effective because of that. I've seen teams with diverse background that suffer due to some disconnect. Diversity is promoted for societal good, not necessarily as a local performance optimization.

wreath 4y ago
I worked in two teams where we all had different ethnic bckground but otherwise very similar in personalities, interests etc. work and conflict resolution was much easier especially that we had a competent manager. Same company but different team with “diverse personalities” was an awful mess
yrgulation 4y ago
How does this happen if not due to poor management? I had transgender, straight, gay, catholic, white, black, chinese, east european, muslim and hindu people all working in the same team without a “disconnect” due to their backgrounds. We agreed to accommodate specific needs of each of them and not once had one an issue with another. This was in the uk. We did have issues with our german branch tho but hr dealt with it rather nicely and it didnt happen again, showing that proper management can sort out discriminatory … “disconnects”.
- flyinglizard 4y ago
  There's a chasm between "not having issue with another" and "high performance". Military infantry units are trained to be high performance and cohesive despite different backgrounds but it takes years in awful conditions.
  - yrgulation 4y ago
    In all honesty we did have awful conditions. We were given a few months to transition from a monolith to microservices or else we’d have to keep maintaining a decade old codebase written in php!

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