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When Systemic Problems Get Reframed as Individual Issues

I am the diversity officer and I just learned that HR has been screening out resumes with 'ethnic-sounding' names for years but everyone wants me to focus on unconscious bias training instead.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

You are being asked to treat symptoms while institutional practices continue to perpetuate the disease.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Institutional ethics and organizational integrity?”

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