Diversity 101: It's More -- and Less -- Than People Thi - Diversity & Inclusion Career Advice from Monster.com

Diversity 101: It's More -- and Less -- Than People Thi - Diversity & Inclusion Career Advice from Monster.com

The most damaging misunderstanding about diversity is the misguided belief that diversity efforts require lowering standards for hiring and promotions. This myth was probably born out of those few highly publicized incidents in which organizations made the fatal mistake of hiring unqualified people just because of their demographic categories. It did not take the Society for Human Resource Management's study showing that the biggest single way to damage diversity programs is to lower hiring and promotion standards for most organizations to correct this practice.