{"id":9153,"date":"2020-06-04T08:14:25","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T13:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/?p=9153"},"modified":"2020-06-04T08:14:25","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T13:14:25","slug":"why-leaders-fail-to-tackle-racial-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/business\/why-leaders-fail-to-tackle-racial-bias\/","title":{"rendered":"Why leaders fail to tackle racial bias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Worryingly, more than 60% of respondents felt that bias remains present at their organisations. What\u2019s worse, whether they\u2019ve simply witnessed or personally experienced it, one in three react by ignoring the bias.&#8221;\u00a0 \u00a0 This article stresses the critical difference in taking actionable and measurable steps to combat and reduce racial bias, versus a basic overarching pledge to &#8217;embrace diversity&#8217; for the sake of outward appearance.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-controls=\"0\" data-card-align=\"center\" data-card-theme=\"light\">\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hcamag.com\/au\/specialisation\/diversity-inclusion\/why-leaders-fail-to-tackle-racial-bias\/212816\">Why leaders fail to tackle racial bias<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>68% said bias negatively impacted their productivity 84% said it affected their happiness, confidence and well-being 70% believed it impacted how engaged they were at work Worryingly, more than 60% of respondents felt that bias remains present at their organisations. What&#8217;s worse, whether they&#8217;ve simply witnessed or personally experienced it, one in three react by ignoring the bias.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Worryingly, more than 60% of respondents felt that bias remains present at their organisations. What\u2019s worse, whether they\u2019ve simply witnessed or personally experienced it, one in three react by ignoring the bias.&#8221;\u00a0 \u00a0 This article stresses the critical difference in taking actionable and measurable steps to combat and reduce racial bias, versus a basic overarching pledge to &#8217;embrace diversity&#8217; for the sake of outward appearance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn-res.keymedia.com\/cms\/images\/us\/036\/0248_637165904966427333.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Why leaders fail to tackle racial bias","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,52],"tags":[161,96,44,45,219,208,97],"class_list":{"0":"post-9153","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"category-hr","9":"tag-communication","10":"tag-company_culture","11":"tag-corporate_culture","12":"tag-leadership","13":"tag-management","14":"tag-thought_leadership","15":"tag-workplace"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9153"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9160,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9153\/revisions\/9160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}