Rethinking DEI with Michèle Lamont

Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

Careers, Business

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives have changed rapidly over the years, and often not for the better. Many companies quickly hired DEI professionals and then dissolved these roles just as fast. Our guest today has put years of research into strategies that encourage workplaces to embrace social inclusion and for her, the solution lies in the power of recognition. Michèle Lamont is a professor of sociology and African American studies at Harvard University. Her newest book, Seeing Others: How Recognition Works—and How It Can Heal a Divided World taps into the universal desire to be seen and respected in favor of a more inclusive society. She sat down with Jessi to share a few of the insights she collected while conducting research for her book. Follow Michèle Lamont on LinkedIn and check out his newest book here. Follow Jessi Hempel on LinkedIn and order her debut memoir, now in paperback. Join the Hello Monday community: Subscribe to the Hello Monday newsletter, and join us on the LinkedIn News page for Hello Monday Office Hours, Wednesdays at 3p ET. To continue the conversation this week and every week, join our free LinkedIn group for Hello Monday listeners https://lnkd.in/hellomondaygroup

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0:00.0	We all have somewhere we're trying to get to, which is why Chevron is aiming to responsibly meet rising energy demand by increasing our US oil and gas production.
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0:13.6	com slash meeting demand linkedin news from the news team at LinkedIn I'm jessy
0:22.4	humble and this is Hello Monday. It's our show about the changing nature of work and how that work is changing us.
0:30.0	Now back in 2020 the Black Lives Matter movement inspired businesses to make a significant change in the way that we did business.
0:39.0	You probably remember it. We talked a lot about it on the show. New roles were created in
0:44.4	diversity, equity, and inclusion in an effort to build more diverse work
0:48.9	environments. In fact, those roles increased by a whopping 55% according to the Society for Human Resources Management.
0:58.0	In other words, it seemed like the tide was really turning.
1:02.0	Unfortunately, and you know where this is going. This did not last.
1:06.5	In education the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action which allowed
1:10.8	colleges and universities to consider race in admissions earlier just this year.
1:16.0	And in the workplace, some companies removed these roles altogether,
1:20.0	and DEI professionals across industries have lost their jobs rapidly.
1:26.3	This sudden loss and momentum begs the question, how do we rethink DEI in a way that's more
1:31.9	sustainable?
1:34.2	Our guest today would say the answer lies in recognition and the understanding of common decency.
1:40.6	I think raising the wider awareness that we're all human being is important way to go about it to bring back to the center of the workplace the notion that we all want dignity and you know the the awareness that although the workplace
1:55.6	can be extremely competitive nevertheless we all gain by having a quality of life that you know leads us to humanize each other and create better
2:06.0	conditions for us. That's Dr. Michel Lamont. She's a professor of sociology and
2:11.4	African American studies at Harvard University, and she's the author of
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