Diversity and other parallel processes – soon history (?)Leili Falsafi

Who is most likely to be approved? Who is most likely to be trusted with power?Who challenges the least?Who’s most like the others (you)?Who do you want to be?

Why do organizations and businesses need Diversity Challenge?What real change needs to be made?What’s stopping us?

What’s the (real) problem?

What’s the context?

Is your organization making (leading or following) the shift?

1 New individuals in old structures

2 New elements in old culture3 Result orientation4 Corporate responsibility

5 “Third wheels”-processes

6 Personality selection7 Changing individuals

8 Industrialized society

1 Changed structures

2 Changed culture3 Purpose orientation4 Conscious and systematic

contribution to sustainability5 Integrated interconnected

processes6 Skill ‘matching’7 Changings systems and

contexts8 Information society

From ToParadigm shift

Motives

Action

When?Where?

Decision Discourse

ToolsCulture & StructureFormal/Informal

ResultsSense of meaning

Analysing organizations; culture and structure

Individuals’ action are always situated.

Analyzing organizations; culture and structure Patterns of action and practice in connection to explicit goals

and motives: Individual action; what do people do? Individual action in context; what makes people do what they do? Which decisions are made by individuals? What are the goals and more importantly the motives that define the

individual actions? Which tools are applied in the processes where individuals act? Which are the discourses? Which are the outcomes of the actions? – result and effect Which formal and informal structures can be identified in these

actions? Etc. Which are the system 1 and system 2 actions and

processes?

Two system approach to judgement and thinkingKeith Stanovich & Richard West as applied by Daniel Khaneman

System 1 operates automatically and quickly, with little or no effort and no sense of voluntary control Highly context dependant Emotional Expert intuitions and actions World knowledge – detect abnormalities and handle

System 2 allocates attention to the effortful mental activities that demand it, including complex computations. The operations of system 2 are often associated with the subjective experience of agency, choice and concentration – exercising

self-control

Consequences of system 1 decisions and judgements System 1 is in charge when system 2 is busy or overloaded Using system 2 is a strain; requires more self-control System 1 generates overconfident judgements (Do you

usually trust your gut feeling?) Judgements based on interviews apply system 1. “…

conducting an interview is likely to diminish the accuracy of a selection procedure…” (ibid. p.225)

Whenever we can replace human judgement by a formula, we should at least consider it (ibid. p 233).

What’s stopping us is …On-the-surface change easierObligation to, will to or need to change?Real change has a domino effect - easier to hook

on parallel processes Easier to ascribe the individual the responsibility -

the influence of the system over the individual always stronger that the other way round.

That it takes work to make changes in S1 and S2 processes

Collective organizational systems (1 & 2) – new paradigm

Changing recruitment and development Despite efforts still mainly a social (irrational) selection

process The process where subjectivity is most likely to influence the

outcome A rigid process that unveils organizational cultural patterns The changes that have taken place are adjustments made to

and improvements of ‘old’ methods, born and developed in the industrial society – people and skills were more homogenous; selection was made within the same ‘human pool’

How can you use your company’s need for DC to analyse your recruitment and development process? Not against the old paradigm but within the framework of a new one.

Diversity and other parallel processes – soon history ?What’s your answer?Yes!Yes, but…

No time to focus on that right now You can’t push things. Change takes time. You need to

be patient. Can’t you see how much we’ve changed. 10 year

ago… A new generation is coming. The winds are

changing. Just wait 10 more years. We can’t afford to do any changes now. We’ve already changed so many things. We need

to let things settle. People are stressed and tired. We need to secure are results first. We can’t do anything unless the politicians (others)

change first.

Thank you!

leili.falsafi@gmail.com

© L. Falsafi, 2013