by Michael Burkart | Nov 16, 2020 | Uncategorized
There are numerous obstacles that leaders encounter when they decide to create racial equity in their organization. One particularly difficult one is the habit of white control. By this I mean that whites are accustomed to being that party, in a relationship, which...
by Michael Burkart | Nov 5, 2020 | Uncategorized
As we saw in Part II, it is impossible to design a management system that is impervious to bias. This is the case because any time someone has to use their discretionary judgement, their conscious or unconscious bias can drive the direction of that decision. In any...
by Michael Burkart | Oct 27, 2020 | Uncategorized
In order to mitigate unconscious bias, each management system must be examined. There are four phases to this work: Create a flow chart identifying each step in the process (recruiting, evaluating, promoting, assigning projects, mentoring). At each step in the...
by Michael Burkart | Oct 18, 2020 | Uncategorized
Research by Professors Judd Kessler and Corinne Low indicates that employers continue to show bias against BIPOC candidates, in spite of affirmations about wanting to hire more BIPOC candidates.[1] In that study of 72 employers, 90% continued to rate lower the...
by Michael Burkart | Oct 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
I have some concrete suggestions for any organizational leader whose company is “unable to find qualified BIPOC workers,” as the Wells Fargo CEO recently said. The first thing you need to do is to find out whether your company is perceived as a place where BIPOC...
by Michael Burkart | Sep 21, 2020 | Uncategorized
A recent article in the New York Times is entitled: “Faces of Power: 80% Are White, Even as U.S. Becomes More Diverse.”[1] The article states that about 40% of US residents identify as BIPOC. The article contrasts this statistic with the following data: 94% of...
by Michael Burkart | Sep 16, 2020 | Uncategorized
Of late, I have come across quite a few posts on social media advertising or advocating for anti-racism and diversity training. While I understand it is very much the need of the hour, most of these ‘training sessions’ do have one fundamental flaw. It is a...
by Michael Burkart | Sep 7, 2020 | Uncategorized
According to Wikipedia, cronyism is “the practice of partiality in awarding jobs and other advantages to friends or trusted colleagues…” What I am calling racial cronyism is the practice of whites hiring other whites who are their friends and colleagues in the...
by Michael Burkart | Aug 18, 2020 | Uncategorized
People of color rarely receive as many development opportunities as do whites (though not every white person receives mentoring or training, those who do have mentors are overwhelmingly white). One driver of this pattern is the fact that there are whites who keep a...
by Michael Burkart | Jul 21, 2020 | Uncategorized
Employees of color have to navigate through white-run organizations, and they can ill afford to alienate white co-workers. After all, whites hold the most powerful positions in the organization and any one white person may have connections with those power holders. ...
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