Performance through Diversity and Inclusion

PART II OVERVIEW Moving from diversity to inclusion: Evidence-based guidance for making diversity and inclusion work

This section of the book relies heavily on reviews of research conducted by experts in various academic disciplines and on large-scale research studies. The focus is on social barriers to diversity and inclusion, on programs that produce inclusion, and on cognitive and behavioral learning that sustains inclusion. We know with a high degree of certainty what these forces of exclusion are and how they operate. From this research, we see that sustaining diversity and inclusion requires organizational actions that deal with natural social forces that, otherwise, produce distancing and exclusion. These social phenomena are natural ...