Increasing diversity in management is good for productivity, a study suggests

Aleksandar Georgiev/Getty Images
  • Racial diversity in upper and lower management results in greater employee productivity, per a June 9 study in the Academy of Management Journal.
  • Researchers Orlando Richard, María del Carmen Triana, and Mingxiang Li analyzed 201 high-tech firms' EEO-1 data — a federally mandated survey that requires categorizing employment data by race/ethnicity, gender and job category.
  • The report found that a 1% increase in racial diversity in management increased a tech firm's productivity by $729 per employee and a Fortune 500 firm's productivity by $1,590 per employee.
  • Additionally, the study suggested that firms with less diverse upper and lower management were also less capable of "making good business decisions, absorbing information, and obtaining a competitive advantage," HR Dive reported.
  • Read more on HR Dive.
{{}}
Next StoryBillionaire Mark Cuban told us his plan to save America's entrepreneurs now that the federal relief fund has run dry - and the biggest disasters the government must fix immediately