Diversity Management, Equality, Equal Opportunities, Affirmative Action, News & We The People!

So says a recent article in TIME magazine of Thursday, Apr. 26, 2007.

Of course it dosen’t; I have been saying this for the last 20 years, It can never work on its own as an approach to delivering equality of opportunity.

It can never work and dare I say that this is not big news either?

Dare I also say that there is a certain cynicism on the part of employers who have twisted and bent and hoodwinked their way through their various diversity programs?

Train till the cows come home, change nothing significant like HOW people actually make decisions, leave discriminatory structures and systems in place, maintain denial, make it all look nice.

I am aware that I could be setting myself up for a measure of punishment from any who don’t want genuine change in their organization’s too, in emphasizing the statement above, we all know that any change must come via a change in environmental conditions.

Organizational structures need to be changed and systems and professional practice. MAKE people work to modified structures and rules, enforce them, just like with financial structures and systems for example.

It’s not exactly “Rocket Science!”

The fact is that negative MEMES are running us all, these MEMES are allowed expression and transmission because the organizational structures and systems enable them.

To achieve change we must modify these structures and systems so as to DISABLE the expression and transmission of these negative memes, for example in recruitment and selection processes.

That way we get the change we want.. No more hand wringing eh?

Lets get REAL!

LINKS:

TIME MAGAZINE ARTICLE:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1615183,00.html

MEMES:
http://weblog.campbellconsent.com/?p=40
http://www.memecentral.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme
http://www.campbellconsent.com/memebased.htm
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/MEMIN.HTML
http://maxwell.lucifer.com/virus/alt.memetics/what.is.html

Floyd Campbell is Principal of
CAMPBELLCONSENT DIVERSITY
Specialist in Diversity Management
Consulting, Training, Research & Marketing
http://www.campbellconsent.com