It doesn’t matter if you think your process is fair, what do those affected by it think? Does everyone feel included and listened to?
In part three of The Antiracist Leader, I covered some of the ways workplace policies can unintentionally and disproportionately exclude people, even when we intend to make them as objective as possible. When creating policies, such as determining who can work remotely, who can switch teams, or who can have access to professional development opportunities, I laid out why it’s so problematic to rely on seniority as the main criteria for who qualifies.