I heard something about a AHC call today that was pretty disturbing...a senior leader talked about a direct leaving and making the choice to promote three people to the next level to replace. All very qualified, the most accomplished for the roles, priaused them.
The leader then backed up to say it was a poor choice. The three people promoted were all white males, didn't serve our diversity objectives. I as someone in a protected class found this as offensive. I want to know that If I got a seat at the table it was because I worked for it and was the best candidate. Not because of some damn quota. At just below the C level are we really serving our shareholders, employees etc, if we are making diversity versus qualification choices in hiring? Isn't that reverse discrimination? Which would still be discrimination?