Wharton School Professor: Trump’s Removal of DEI in Federal Gov’t Is a Removal of ‘Accountability Mechanisms’

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CREARY: “So, most of us are evaluated on a regular basis for our performance and our direct supervisors or managers are the people who determine what our performance ratings are. But research and my work with companies shows two things. First, managers often rely on their gut instinct and not universally agreed upon criteria in order to assess performance. And second, no two managers often assess people using the same criteria. DEI practices were holding managers and organizations accountable for, one, using the same criteria, and two, creating calibrations processes so that managers are using the same scales in the same way to evaluate performance. So that’s an example of when we get rid of DEI leaders, staffers, employees and offices, we get rid of the accountability mechanisms that are ensuring fairness for all of us.”