My experience is that if DEI hiring ends in a bad hire, that the organization at large was likely going to do a bad hire anyway. Some people might find it easier to blame DEI, but the truth is that your leadership sucks at your business. DEI is a scapegoat.
For example, people were jumping up and down at Boeing’s mission statement including DEI and pinning all their woes on that. Except the severe mistakes were made before that mission statement, and a more clear line can be drawn from how McDonnell Douglas leadership failed, got slurped up into Boeing, and ultimately somehow got to call the shots at Boeing.
Hollow, insincere self congratulation around DEI was a common feature of bad leadership, but it’s not the cause of the problems. Plenty of successful companies with solid hiring also have DEI initiatives without detriment.
When they have connections based on a privileged upbringing so they should be considered first like a true american instead of those people who pulled themselves up by their bootstraps.
That’s why whenever I hear people claim someone was a DEI hire they always follow up with a meticulous assessment of their qualifications, awards, interview performance and achievements and they compare them accurately with another applicant that had better qualifications, awards, interview performance and achievements. They don’t simply look at the first non white cis het male in a position of power and scream ‘DEI!!!’ betraying the bigotry that is actually pushing this. No siree.
My concern is that dei hiring practices are curtailing merit based hiring.
I don’t care either way what ones political affiliations are or what one identifys as as long as they’re the best for the job.
(This is simply a critical assessment of the issue and does not reflect any personal views on dei or what some refer to as woke)
My experience is that if DEI hiring ends in a bad hire, that the organization at large was likely going to do a bad hire anyway. Some people might find it easier to blame DEI, but the truth is that your leadership sucks at your business. DEI is a scapegoat.
For example, people were jumping up and down at Boeing’s mission statement including DEI and pinning all their woes on that. Except the severe mistakes were made before that mission statement, and a more clear line can be drawn from how McDonnell Douglas leadership failed, got slurped up into Boeing, and ultimately somehow got to call the shots at Boeing.
Hollow, insincere self congratulation around DEI was a common feature of bad leadership, but it’s not the cause of the problems. Plenty of successful companies with solid hiring also have DEI initiatives without detriment.
It certainly isnt
What merit based hiring.
When they have connections based on a privileged upbringing so they should be considered first like a true american instead of those people who pulled themselves up by their bootstraps.
Where candidates have amazing credentials and accolades but are terrible at the job.
That’s why whenever I hear people claim someone was a DEI hire they always follow up with a meticulous assessment of their qualifications, awards, interview performance and achievements and they compare them accurately with another applicant that had better qualifications, awards, interview performance and achievements. They don’t simply look at the first non white cis het male in a position of power and scream ‘DEI!!!’ betraying the bigotry that is actually pushing this. No siree.