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2007-04-27 Home Front: Culture Wars

Employee Diversity Training Doesn't Work

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Posted by tu3031 2007-04-27 13:37|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Pick the best people you can find for the job, and treat them all with respect, and "diversity" takes care of itself.

Posted by Mike 2007-04-27 14:06|| 2007-04-27 14:06|| Front Page Top

#2 They really avoid the biggest issue: accession to the top ranks requires top performance.

The popular misconception is to pretend that top corporate executives just hang out with their buddies for martinis and golf, doing a job that anyone could do. It goes hand in hand with statements like Al Gore's that the rich have "won life's lottery".

Which in a way is like criticizing a heart surgeon because "what he does isn't any different than what a plumber does". Yes, well, in both cases, plumbing is involved.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-04-27 14:11|| 2007-04-27 14:11|| Front Page Top

#3 R. Roosevelt Thomas, founder of the American Institute for Managing Diversity, says corporate America must first redefine the word. Diversity

Perhaps we should find a way to prevent the charlatans of social experiment to stop redefining definitions to their liking every time the little- people catch on to their boondoggles. We need ahhhhummmwhats the phrase againoh yeahwe need a paradigm shift.

Posted by DepotGuy 2007-04-27 14:25|| 2007-04-27 14:25|| Front Page Top

#4 "Diversity means differences and similarities," he says, be they in race, gender or corporate culture.

Diversity is difference and similarity. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Intellectuals are morons.

Posted by The Doctor 2007-04-27 15:51|| 2007-04-27 15:51|| Front Page Top

#5 In my case, it was an excellent opportunity to feel bad about being born a white guy. I passed on that

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-04-27 15:54|| 2007-04-27 15:54|| Front Page Top

#6 I've spent a reasonable amount of my employer's time trying to figure out just exactly what "diversity in the work place" means.

I've come up with two possible answers:

1. It is something to be said in order to keep the likes of Jessie Jackson, et el from blackmailing the organization.

or

2. It means the some people really can dance better than others. This is based on the guidance that "different groups/cultures" bring "different points of view/strengths" (why this is good is never explained) to the organization.

The first seems to be the most likely as I have serious doubs about the second possibility as I have seen no evidence to support the thesis.

But then I am just a bottom feeder, so what do I know?

Posted by kelly 2007-04-27 16:15|| 2007-04-27 16:15|| Front Page Top

#7 Their analysis found no real change in the number of women and minority managers after companies began diversity training. That's right--none. Networking didn't do much, either.

No different in academia. They demand, contrive, and out right break the law in the name of diversity - for the students. However, when it comes to faculty, the old standard of 'one set of rules for thee and another set of rules for me' applies, hiding behind their tenure.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-04-27 17:33|| 2007-04-27 17:33|| Front Page Top

#8 'Diversity' is usually 'mananged' by HR, you know those offices, and departments, full of white suburban women who have zero tolerance for diversity in their area.

Posted by Black Bart Glinesh2086 2007-04-27 19:30|| 2007-04-27 19:30|| Front Page Top

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