Diversity might be a good thing, but forced training in tolerance not only fails in the business world, it backfires, according to a new Harvard study.

If diversity training researchers and practitioners embrace tailoring diversity training to different trainee personas, more creative approaches to tailoring will surely be designed.

5 reasons diversity training usually fails The track record for various forms of diversity training shows how difficult it is to change people’s deeper attitudes and behaviors.

2. Look for people with high openness to new ideas.

Diversity training is more effective when it’s personalized, according to my new research in the peer-reviewed journal Applied Psychology. As a professor of management, I partnered with Andrew ...

Workplace diversity training is commonplace, but the results it creates and the reasons companies implement it drastically vary. Because it’s unclear whether training actually works, scientists ...

While 98% of companies offer diversity initiatives, training cannot be the only tool in a company’s arsenal to combat bias in the workplace.

SWOT Analysis on Diversity Training. When a business wants to conduct an analysis of its productivity and potential success, a SWOT analysis is commonly used. SWOT stands for strengths, weaknesses ...

The most popular–and expensive–approach is diversity training, or workshops to teach executives to embrace the benefits of a diverse staff. Too bad it doesn’t work.

At this point, it’s clear that traditional diversity training programs are a source of controversy. In a two-part post, we’ll take a deep dive into diversity programming and think through its ...

They also tried diversity training that brought groups of people into a room and asked them to separate into categories. Some of the categories were more self-evident, like gender, age, and ethnicity.

Critics have accused Reform UK of a U-turn after their councillors attended an equalities training session despite seemingly ...