For decades, the corporate world has run with a simple story: Diversity drives performance. Lately, though, the conventional wisdom has been challenged, and for good reason: Independent, peer-reviewed ...

Diversity, in the last few years, has been transformed from a prominent social, demographic, and organizational issue into a political football. I believe that’s because we’re not looking at it in its ...

Researchers used artificial intelligence-based language analysis to evaluate the diversity statement at each company on the Fortune 500 list. They found that 80 percent of companies had a ...

Gemma Hamilton receives funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC). Nicola Henry receives funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC) and Google. She is also a member of the Australian ...

In the modern workplace, the convergence of multiple generations brings both richness and complexity. From Baby Boomers, who grew up in a time of post-war prosperity, to Gen-Z, digital natives born ...

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To many, it seems obvious that having women well-represented in the workplace would be a good thing. After all, they make up more than half the population and, in many cases, they are contributing or ...

This article is excerpted from a Chronicle special report, “The Future of Diversity Training,” available in the Chronicle Store. D iversity-training programs are now practically a rite of passage for ...