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Navigating the unintended consequences of diversity initiatives
As many organisations are painfully aware, making progress towards diversity and inclusion is not easy. Research into diversity intervention effectiveness reveals mixed results, and to have any chance of improving the effectiveness of DE&I interventions in your organisation, it’s essential that you understand why. Different diversity initiatives may trigger specific unintended consequences; the four identified different results are backfire, negative spill-over, positive spill-over and false progress. In this blog post I’m going to outline each unintended consequence and how to identify, move forward from and implement steps to avoid these in the future.
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