4. What makes a workplace diversity program successful?

This article is written by Lisa Leslie on January 21, 2020. This article is published by Greater good magazine. the article starts with, Facebook upload a report about diversity to release the number of efforts are trying by the companies towards diversity in their staff. 

Diversity initiatives are policies and practices that aim to improve target group members' workplace experiences and outcomes.While this may appear to be a simple task, research indicates that these campaigns do not always perform as planned. According to research, a number of diversity initiatives, such as grading managers based on diversity and inclusion indicators and forming diversity networking and affinity groups, can result in either greater or less representation of target groups. Organizations are complex places made up of people who interact with one another in complex ways. Even when leaders have the best of intentions while implementing diversity efforts, unforeseen outcomes might occur. First is backfiring, When a diversity project has an unfavourable impact on the desired objective, such as when the program reduces representation or encourages discrimination, this is known as backfire. Second is Negative spillover, this happens when diversity programs have an unfortunate effect. Diversity initiatives, for example, may elicit unfavourable reactions from members of the non-target group. Third is false progress, This happens when a diversity effort has the intended result on the preferred result diversity numbers improve, making it appear that things are getting better but the improvement is not followed by actual core change. Moving further, for making diversity initiatives more effective there are three board types which are, diversity is good, diversity is bad, and diversity is good but really hard. Writer new project was based on this board types and she surveyed about 500 employees and ask them how they thinks leaders are talk about diversity. Most common category was "Diversity is Good" but on the other hand, "diversity is bad" was very rare. 

Reference:

Leslie, L., 2020. What Makes a Workplace Diversity Program Successful?. [online] Greater Good. Available at: <https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/what_makes_a_workplace_diversity_program_successful> 

1. This article should be applied on all workplaces and it should be known that if the diversity programs are successful and what are those efforts are really helpful which are taking by owners or managers to improve the level of diversity.

2. In future, I will apply the ideas from this article to get help that what ideas and efforts can help me to make my workplace diversity successful.