Performance through Diversity and Inclusion

PART I OVERVIEW Leveraging the framework for inclusive interactions to improve performance and equity

In Part I, readers will find a presentation of the book’s intent and its framework for organizations to achieve equity and performance from diversity and inclusion. As a prelude to this section, we present here a summary of the book’s logic so that, from the start, the reader can engage critically with its main ideas.

The current situation in the United States and other advanced economies is a slowing, plateauing, and even regressing of progress on reducing discrimination and benefitting from diversity. There has been a reawakening of the reality that inequitable, unjustified treatment of those from historically underrepresented groups, including ...