How Corporate Diversity Programs Alienate White Men

A growing body of research pinpoints some big flaws with corporate diversity programs.

While America’s tech firms prize themselves on their innovation, when it comes to diversity, they still lag far behind. Under criticism, tech giants have introduced new diversity initiatives and hires.

But according to research just published in the Harvard Business Review, such efforts often fail. Researchers ..reviewed previous research that showed diversity training programs often have “little positive effect” and undertook further experiments that demonstrate that programs may actually backfire, setting diversity back at companies.

Pro-diversity messages signaled to white men that they might be undervalued and discriminated against.

This body of research, the academics say, should make companies question the value of their diversity initiatives.

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