{"title":"Applying Lessons Learned From COVID-19","authors":"Cindy Anne DeMarco, Rodney D. Satterwhite","doi":"10.4018/978-1-7998-8827-7.ch006","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The COVID-19 pandemic put a proverbial magnifying glass on many societal and business issues. Business leaders were not as prepared as they would have liked to have been to address the issues and as a result learned multiple lessons, in particular, how to navigate increased need for attention to workplace diversity and inclusion (D&I). With these lessons in mind, understanding opportunities to expand how we think about and define diversity, the need for belonging/inclusion, how changing workplace demographics are becoming more influential, and the critical role organizational leadership plays in the D&I journey are essential as we move through the COVID-19-pandemic era. Leveraging transformational leadership as a mindset and an emerging model, reflect-forward framework, practical strategies are presented to help leaders reflect, assess, and set the stage to move forward. Due to the evolving nature of the topic, resources include a combination expertise of the authors, research data, popular press, and scholarly articles.","PeriodicalId":129965,"journal":{"name":"Multidisciplinary Approach to Diversity and Inclusion in the COVID-19-Era Workplace","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Multidisciplinary Approach to Diversity and Inclusion in the COVID-19-Era Workplace","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8827-7.ch006","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The COVID-19 pandemic put a proverbial magnifying glass on many societal and business issues. Business leaders were not as prepared as they would have liked to have been to address the issues and as a result learned multiple lessons, in particular, how to navigate increased need for attention to workplace diversity and inclusion (D&I). With these lessons in mind, understanding opportunities to expand how we think about and define diversity, the need for belonging/inclusion, how changing workplace demographics are becoming more influential, and the critical role organizational leadership plays in the D&I journey are essential as we move through the COVID-19-pandemic era. Leveraging transformational leadership as a mindset and an emerging model, reflect-forward framework, practical strategies are presented to help leaders reflect, assess, and set the stage to move forward. Due to the evolving nature of the topic, resources include a combination expertise of the authors, research data, popular press, and scholarly articles.