Do things that create profit matter for business anymore? Does a little money from the government outweigh the value of business reputation or the big money from customers?
It seems that the writer of the Forbes article "The Business Case For Diversity (DEI) May Be Backfiring" thinks it should not matter as much as the feelings of potential employees - not current staff. If a company does not value generating profit, then how can it afford to keep or hire employees? If it does not have innovative, trust-worthy, flexible, and qualified personnel; how can a business succeed? These programs are not resulting in qualified hires, instead they have led to experienced employees complaining about and leaving some companies. Most employees complaining said they felt less valued so their productivity, creativity, quality, and participation in teamwork suffered. Those employees then exposed why they left and showed samples of training matierials in videos and on social media. That exposure led to customers finding out, about the programs that were vastly different from what they valued and then looking for alternative companies to fill their needs.
Still want diversity and equality? "Why Diversity Programs Fail" in Harvard Business Review says to stop forcing re-written EEO-type initiatives based on race or gender, instead promote volunteer training and mentorship. The studies this article shares show people get along better working together equally, rather than being told what to do or not do based on gender or race criteria. It now seems that diversity and equity programs tend to divide people instead of increasing inclusiveness, motivation or unity. The technology areas seem to be suffering the most due to falling quality in systems because of limited qualified candidates in quota related hiring. So why do government agencies want force or reward these programs? Why do consultants still push the programs if they do not meet the client's needs? Are the consultants hurting the economy by personally getting richer if their client companies profilts decline or start on a path of going-out-of-busines?
Understand these terms and the history:
- DEI =Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion - 2021 Executive Order
- Government subsidized on-the-job re-training to promote exclusion
- Government sponsored education prior to joining workforce to discourage equality
- Education substituted SEL & CRT (mutation of Karl Marx's Critcal Theory)
- EEO =Equal[ity] Employment Opportunity (jobs) - 1964 Civil Rights Act of Congress
- Open education and job options to promote a diverse workforce at all levels
What is the difference between Equity and Equality? Basically, some are treated differently or all are treated equally. The majority of people want to be treated equal to others, a few want to be better than others, while none want to be less than others. Most workers find these forced re-training programs more divisive, not inclusive. So which kind of employer should companies try to be? Common sense says treat everyone the same. If not the same, at least based on productivity and responsibility instead of some physical trait that they have no control over. Will businesses expect education to change or will they continue to look for certifications rather than degrees for competent people? Will human resources have to go back to looking for qulaiied workers tather than some abstract number?
If installing these programs adversely affects ingenuity, morale, productivity, motivation, or profits; will it kill business? If businesses get boycotted when customers find out they are doing this newest training, will that affect their bottom-line profits? After seeing what this program does to business, should this acronym be redefined as Death to Empowerent and Innovation? (Or as recently published Discrimination, Exclusion, Indoctrination in Twitter MEME as well as the trending hashtags #DeathToDEI and DEIisDead...) If businesses die, where will people work? Logically, when there are less businesses, then there will be less jobs. Less jobs means killed jobs, which means fewer opportunities for employment.
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