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Connect New Voices to the Group
Diversity enhances creativity and innovation in organizations, but tokenism undermines this potential; instead, companies should focus on integrating underrepresented employees based on their strengths, fostering belonging, and creating environments where diverse voices can thrive and contribute meaningfully.
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The 4 Benefits of Remote Teams
Despite misconceptions about virtual teams’ productivity, effective management can bridge interpersonal gaps through improved communication, reduced inefficiencies, and a focus on trust-building, ultimately enabling organizations to hire top talent while minimizing biases.
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Develop an Action Plan
Kenji Yoshino’s research highlights the inadequacy of many diversity initiatives since the 1960s, proposing a three-step framework—diagnose, analyze, and act—to effectively address identity covering in workplaces and foster genuine inclusion.
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Unify Employee Affinity Groups
Kenji Yoshino discusses Robert Putnam’s bonding and bridging capital, emphasizing that while bonding capital unites individuals within groups, bridging capital fosters connections across diverse groups, advocating for combined bonding and bridging activities to prevent isolation in organizations.
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Accept the Symbolic Role of Leadership
Kenji Yoshino’s research highlights that covering demands from leaders significantly diminish employee commitment and engagement, emphasizing the need for leaders to actively support diversity initiatives to fully harness their workforce’s talents.
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Improve Expatriate Satisfaction for Your Workforce Abroad
To navigate the cultural complexities of North Korea and enhance expatriate success, companies should foster cross-cultural competence through training, empathy, and awareness of local norms, while addressing power dynamics to mitigate misunderstandings and ethnocentric attitudes.
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Understand Different Populations Using the Tight-Loose Lens
“Tightness” and “looseness” describe the strength of social norms in cultures, with tight cultures enforcing strong rules and low tolerance for deviance, while loose cultures embrace weak rules and high tolerance, influencing behaviors and attitudes across social classes.
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African-American Women and The C-Suite
African American women have historically embraced leadership roles in their communities, balancing careers and motherhood without seeing conflict, yet they face greater challenges and isolation in the workplace compared to their white counterparts, often lacking the necessary support and sponsorship for advancement.
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The Neurobiology of Intergroup Relations
Emerging neuroscience reveals that workplace stereotyping creates a self-fulfilling prophecy through stress, which disproportionately affects stereotyped groups by impairing their executive function, leading to underperformance compared to colleagues who do not face such stressors.
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Rethink the Term “Microaggressions”
In a video lesson, inclusion strategist Ruchika Malhotra emphasizes the importance of recognizing “exclusionary behaviors,” such as mispronouncing names and stereotype-based assumptions, which can significantly impact marginalized individuals’ well-being and sense of belonging, and suggests asking for correct name pronunciations as a simple act of inclusion.
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Developing an Inclusion Mindset
Cultivating diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace is complex due to individual identities and biases, but inclusion specialist Ruchika Malhotra emphasizes that those in power should leverage their privilege to create opportunities for underestimated groups, while all employees can foster a more inclusive culture.
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Flex Your Leadership Style
In today’s complex, multicultural workplace, effective leaders must adapt their communication styles to connect with diverse individuals by understanding their differences and preparing for interactions with thoughtful pre-engagement questions, as advised by leadership strategist Jane Hyun.