Pastor Corey Brooks Endorses The Diversity Dilemma

Pastor Corey Brooks writes:

"While more people today support some form of affirmative action to help advance underrepresented groups in the workforce, according to Pew Research, the percentage of people who favor preferential treatment has not grown in more than thirty years. Many so-called diversity programs have a fundamental flaw in that they are based on preferential treatment toward people who fit into certain categories. 

"However, these types of affirmative action programs and the ostensible opportunities they represent have not yielded the results originally intended. This is due in large part to the fact that people may get preferential treatment in being selected, but if they don’t get an equal opportunity to be developed toward highly effective leadership skills, succeeding in the job or beyond the job becomes much more difficult.

"Preferential treatment, as a selection mechanism, is a subset of a larger problem when staffing an organization to improve productivity, innovation, morale, or outcomes. The larger problem is that any selection process that relegates merit and behaviors to the second, third, or fourth criterion will have an eventual negative impact on organizational performance, and therefore, stakeholder value. "

Building and sustaining diversity is more about equal development than equal opportunity. Thank you, Pastor Corey Brooks for the great endorsement! If you want to see equal development in action, visit ProjectHOOD.