As part of your DEI journey, it’s important to provide a forum for employees to ask questions and voice their concerns. Below, we’ve provided sample responses to common inquiries and pushback. We encourage you to engage in the difficult conversations and please reach out to HR if you require additional support or resources.
DEI questions and concerns addressed in this resource are:
- What does DEI really mean?
- I don’t think we should make hiring decisions based on race or gender but rather we should always hire the most qualified candidate.
- Promotions should be based on qualifications only, not for diversity. Promoting people for reasons other than ability and qualifications is unfair and discriminatory toward white people.
- Why are we changing the way we treat people, or making us feel like the way we have treated coworkers was wrong?
- Some of our employees are conservative, why are we including politics at work?
- Too much time, money and effort is spent on Diversity. For a company to be financially successful, we need to focus on what’s important.
- Diversity leads to more division, not more equality.
- Why is diversity encouraged only when it fits the needs of the senior management? Diversity and inclusion should pertain to more than just race and gender.
- Why are we renaming our DEI programs? It feels like we are pandering and never really cared about this work.
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