Performance through Diversity and Inclusion

PART II SUMMARY Guidance for making diversity and inclusion work

At an increasing rate over the last two decades, research published in academic and industry journals has produced knowledge that can guide managers in achieving high performance and equity from diversity and inclusion. That achievement requires understanding where and why some current efforts have come up short and, on the opposite side, how some non-diversity organizational programs have unexpectedly produced that achievement. Drawing on systematic literature reviews that assess knowledge generated in a large number of individual studies, and on several highly-informative large scale studies, we find that research performed in a variety of academic fields and sectors of society ...