Promoting diversity isn't as many think; pure do-gooderism.
It's genuinely good for business, since a large body of evidence suggests that making organizations more diverse casn also make them perform better.
A recent McKinsey study found that the organizations with the most diverse executive teams had dramatically higher returns on equity and earnings performance than those with the least diverse teams.
The snag is that, while diverse groups perform well, they can be harder to manage and more challenging to work in than homogeneous ones, precisely because diverse perspectives lead to more disagreement and conflict. So even when the results are better, people are less happy with the experience.
To fix this, you have to consciously reshape how people deal with one another, and that entails some cultural disruption. But it's a price worth paying.
Source: James Surowiecki in The New Yorker, November 24, 2014
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