Yeah, That Will Fix Their Problems

I am not a big fan of most DEI programs.  This is not because I think that anti-discrimination policies are unimportant, but because I think that such policies are very important.

I think that most DEI programs are ineffective, the training does not make people less bigoted, so all they serve to do is provide employment for DEI professionals within the company and contracts for DEI consultants from outside the company.

From an organizational perspective they are more about checking boxes to reduce liability than anything else.

An effective DEI program is not about training, nor is it about raising awareness.  An effective DEI program should be punitive in nature, because potentially harassing and abusive employees will behave properly if they believe that there is a credible possible of negative consequences, firing and demotion.

It should be about deterrence, not about trying to make everyone love each other.

That being said, the decision by Boeing's CEO to shut down their Diversity Equity and Inclusion office is about as close to rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic as one could get.

Boeing Co. has dismantled its global diversity, equity and inclusion department, making it the latest high-profile corporation to make changes to its DEI policy as its new top leader oversees a broader revamp of the company’s workforce.

Staff from Boeing’s DEI office will be combined with another human resources team focused on talent and employee experience, according to people familiar with the matter. Sara Liang Bowen, a Boeing vice president who led the now-defunct department, left the company on Thursday.

“The team achieved so much — sometimes imperfectly, never easily — and dreamed of doing much more still,” Bowen wrote in a farewell post on LinkedIn.

Boeing’s new Chief Executive Officer Kelly Ortberg is streamlining the planemaker’s operations and trimming its executive ranks as part of a broader 10% reduction in headcount. The shift also comes as large US companies face increasing pressure from conservative activists to dismantle or downplay their efforts on diversity, equity and inclusion.

The problem at Boeing is white MBAs from Harvard and Stanford and Yale and Princeton 

This is a bullsh%$ action by a bullsh%$ CEO who won't accomplish sh%$ at Boeing.

If he wanted to change things, he'd be firing senior managers, and not posturing over what HR is doing.