{"id":243,"date":"2021-06-24T02:29:28","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T02:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ksoakes.expressions.syr.edu\/wrt205summer2021\/?p=243"},"modified":"2021-06-24T02:29:28","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T02:29:28","slug":"kaplan-and-donovan-summary-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ksoakes.expressions.syr.edu\/wrt205summer2021\/2021\/06\/24\/kaplan-and-donovan-summary-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaplan and Donovan Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The issues concerning diversity and the lack of inclusion in the workplace have largely gone unnoticed or unaddressed.&nbsp; Mark Kaplan and Mason Donovan bring awareness to this problem in their book <em>The Inclusion Dividend: Why Investing in Diversity &amp; Inclusion Pays Off<\/em>;Specifically in chapter three they discuss the ways in which executives might unconsciously create biased and unequal workplaces and how companies should recognize these occurrences.&nbsp; Kaplan and Donovan provide examples of these accidental prejudices, such as intent and impact, unconscious bias, insider-outsider dynamics, and levels of systems.&nbsp; These are all things that hinder diversity and inclusion and through recognition of the aforementioned barriers, the workplace can begin to adjust and correct the wrong behavior.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kaplan and Donovan show these biases in action through an in-depth example of a day in the life of an executive Kim in a company.&nbsp; Throughout the day, Kim countlessly shows that while she might have good intentions, she contributes heavily to creating a workplace in which she does not respect people who differ from her ideas of a hard worker: from evidence, an outgoing assertive male.&nbsp; The sort of behavior that she exhibited was not inclusive and clearly necessary for assistance to create a safe space for all the workers in the company, especially minorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The issues concerning diversity and the lack of inclusion in the workplace have largely gone unnoticed or unaddressed.&nbsp; Mark Kaplan and Mason Donovan bring awareness to this problem in their book The Inclusion Dividend: Why Investing in Diversity &amp; Inclusion Pays Off;Specifically in chapter three they discuss the ways in which executives might unconsciously create &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ksoakes.expressions.syr.edu\/wrt205summer2021\/2021\/06\/24\/kaplan-and-donovan-summary-6\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Kaplan and Donovan Summary&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[22,44,46],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksoakes.expressions.syr.edu\/wrt205summer2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksoakes.expressions.syr.edu\/wrt205summer2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksoakes.expressions.syr.edu\/wrt205summer2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksoakes.expressions.syr.edu\/wrt205summer2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksoakes.expressions.syr.edu\/wrt205summer2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ksoakes.expressions.syr.edu\/wrt205summer2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244,"href":"https:\/\/ksoakes.expressions.syr.edu\/wrt205summer2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions\/244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksoakes.expressions.syr.edu\/wrt205summer2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksoakes.expressions.syr.edu\/wrt205summer2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksoakes.expressions.syr.edu\/wrt205summer2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}