SEEKING PUBLISHED RESEARCH on the Pecuniary Efficacy of Diversity & Inclusion

InclusiveWorks® is seeking to attract a reference list of published reports and studies showing clear superiority in business performance, including and especially profitability, process gains, quality of decision-making, and overall market and financial performance of the business, government, or nonprofit organizations directly attributable to one or more planned, implemented, monitored and reported Diversity & Inclusion programs.

The documented results can be pretest-posttest, direct comparisons to competitors, comparisons to industry or market averages (including indexes), or, in the case of new market entrants, revenue/profitability growth rates, market share/saturation growth rates, consumer/client preference/awareness rates and any other specific key success indicators that relate directly to financial performance.

This discussion is being posted to collect a solid reference library of applied research that unequivocally enumerates specific measurable achievements directly attributable to the implementation of D&I ( or either “D” or “I” ) programs in organizations of any kind. The reference doesn’t have to be from your own company. The reference to any organization will serve the need.

Some specific findings might involve attributable ROI, ROR, IRR, change in P/E, documented cost avoidance, demonstrable decreases in costs, etc. Each should be linked directly with the coincident start of Diversity Programs (which may also…