Bloomberg Businessweek - USA (2020-08-10)

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Bret Begun

● Your company

has committedto

becoming more

diverse.How doyou

make thathappen?

A ‘DEI’

TO-DO LIST

InJune,spurredbyworldwideanti-racismprotests,

companies pledged to do better on racial equality.

Two months later, after making internal and public

declarations about their commitments, some lead-

ers may be wondering how to handle the next steps.

It starts with gathering data, say experts in diver-

sity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Ruchika Tulshyan,

founder and chief executive officer of consulting

company Candour in Seattle and author of The

Diversity Advantage: Fixing Gender Inequality in the

Workplace, suggests an internal audit. How many

people of color does your organization employ, and

how senior are they? Have you measured employee

engagement levels by race or gender? Do you have

performance reviews to indicate how fair and inclu-

sivemanagersare?

Onceyouknowwhereyoustand,setclear,

measurable targets. “Deal with the problem using

the tools businesses use for any problem they actu-

ally care about—evidence, goals, and metrics,” says

Joan Williams, a professor at University of California

Hastings College of the Law who studies gender and

racial bias. Especially helpful for setting objectives: ILLUSTRATION BY MICHELLE KWON

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