Improving Recruitment Strategies: A Liberal Critique of the Diversity Promise
Silvennoinen, Janne (2024)
2024
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This thesis critically evaluates modern Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies through a liberal lens, focusing on the Diversity Promise (Monimuotoisuuslupaus) used by organizations on Duunitori, Finland’s largest recruiting site. Beneficiaries include organizations implementing DEI policies, policymakers, and DEI consultants.
The task involves scrutinizing the Diversity Promise using predicate logic to assess its implications and contradictions with liberal principles, emphasizing individual autonomy, merit, and moral equality, with insights from liberal thinkers like John Stuart Mill, Adam Smith, and Friedrich Hayek.
The research uses qualitative analysis and predicate logic to break down the Diversity Promise and includes a questionnaire administered to a venture capital firm to understand DEI policies' practical implications. The findings suggest that the Diversity Promise, while well-intentioned, contradicts liberal principles by emphasizing immutable characteristics over individual merit, leading to logical inconsistencies and practical challenges in recruitment.
The thesis concludes that DEI policies based on the Diversity Promise may undermine individual merit and equality of opportunity. It recommends adopting a liberal framework for recruitment, focusing on merit-based evaluation and anonymous recruitment processes to minimize biases.
The task involves scrutinizing the Diversity Promise using predicate logic to assess its implications and contradictions with liberal principles, emphasizing individual autonomy, merit, and moral equality, with insights from liberal thinkers like John Stuart Mill, Adam Smith, and Friedrich Hayek.
The research uses qualitative analysis and predicate logic to break down the Diversity Promise and includes a questionnaire administered to a venture capital firm to understand DEI policies' practical implications. The findings suggest that the Diversity Promise, while well-intentioned, contradicts liberal principles by emphasizing immutable characteristics over individual merit, leading to logical inconsistencies and practical challenges in recruitment.
The thesis concludes that DEI policies based on the Diversity Promise may undermine individual merit and equality of opportunity. It recommends adopting a liberal framework for recruitment, focusing on merit-based evaluation and anonymous recruitment processes to minimize biases.