Another predictable pitfall in the hiring process that creates racist dynamics throughout the organization involves the persistent practice of using hiring to only change the racial demographics in the organization, instead of also emphasizing the need to increase the cultural competencies of all leaders and employees. As long as the only focus is on hiring more people of color, without a parallel goal of ensuring that every person hired is culturally competent, the pattern will continue of hiring whites without the necessary skills and capacity to work effectively on racially diverse teams or
...more
