Do Diversity Initiatives Increase Diversity?: Q4 Member Briefing with Frank Dobbin
On October 24th, we convened 100% Talent Compact signers for our Q4 member briefing featuring a special presentation by Professor Frank Dobbin. Dobbin’s presentation - Do Diversity Initiatives Increase Diversity?: Thirty Years of Evidence from Eight Hundred Companies - discussed three key topics: Engaging Managers; Blaming and Shaming Managers; Career & Work-Life Transparency.
“If you think of this as a social movement, you’ve got to get people to join it.”
About the Presentation & Frank Dobbin
American companies have been building diversity management programs since the 1960s. Have their innovations increased diversity among corporate managers? Data following hundreds of companies for several decades suggest that some programs have helped, some have not. Programs designed to engage leaders in addressing diversity have mostly worked, while those designed to control manager bias have often backfired. Most programs to promote work-life balance have helped, but programs to address workplace harassment sometimes backfire. Findings help to explain America’s slow progress in integrating corporations.
Frank Dobbin is a Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard. He holds a B.A. from Oberlin College and a Ph.D. from Stanford University. His Inventing Equal Opportunity book (Princeton University Press, 2009; winner, Distinguished Scholarly Book Award, American Sociological Association) charts how corporations have responded to anti-discrimination law since the 1960s. With Alexandra Kalev, he is developing an evidence-based approach to diversity management, using administrative data and panel surveys to explore how hiring, promotion, diversity, work-life and harassment programs have shaped both the corporate and faculty workforces over 25 years. To learn more about Frank Dobbin, please visit here.
A special thanks to 100% Talent Compact signer and 2019 Innovative Initiative Winner, HubSpot, for making this event possible.
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Join us for our next and final 2019 event, the 5th Annual Effective Practices Conference!
100% Talent Compact members and community leaders will get an inside first look of findings from our 2019 Gender Pay Gaps report. We will discuss how public and private sectors can reach gender parity in Boston. BWWC HR Advisory Board members will participate in a panel discussion on effective practices based on the 2019 Innovative Initiatives.
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