Human Rights
Building a Culture of Accountability
Advancing racial equity within your organization requires making accountability a cultural norm.
Tag: Workplace
Human Rights
Union Construction’s Racial Equity and Inclusion Charade
White men have taken extraordinary measures to keep construction unions white and have designed their unions to frustrate and intimidate prospective Black members.
Human Rights
The Office Door
How white supremacy materializes at this threshold of workplace relations and power dynamics.
Advocacy
Social Change in the Office
Four strategies for organizational activism—advocate, subvert, facilitate, and heal—can help the increasing number of people who want to challenge racism, sexism, heterosexism, ableism, and other injustices in the workplace.
Human Rights
The Racism of the ‘Hard-to-Find’ Qualified Black Candidate Trope
Stereotypes and racial bias in hiring and promotion are damaging at personal, career, and organizational levels.
Human Rights
The Emotional Tax of Deficit Thinking
A pervasive fallacy imposes a heavy emotional toll on employees from underrepresented groups.
Human Rights
The Concrete Ceiling
Despite increased dialogue around racial and gender bias and discrimination, women of color struggle to advance in their careers due to the rigidity of unjust systems.
Human Rights
The ‘Not Here’ Syndrome
Racism denial, workplace inequity, and the futility of speaking out.
Human Rights
Dignity Is the Bedrock for Workplace Belonging
A new framework identifies racial harms and other forms of discrimination in order to create work environments where everyone feels they belong. Part of an in-depth series that explains how racism operates within organizations.
Health
Integrating Individual and Organizational Well-Being
By supporting individual and team resilience, and by making small shifts to organizational life that enhance well-being, organizations can improve their effectiveness and contribute to a healthier overall culture for social change. Part of the Centered Self series.