NIAS Fellow Frank Dobbin: ‘Companies adhering too closely to Trump, will become less competitive.'

For many years, the American Harvard sociologist Frank Dobbin has been researching how organisations can increase diversity. He spent the past six months as a fellow at NIAS where he researched the effectiveness of diversity policies at universities. In his interview with Sezen Moeliker Dobbin he tells how it suits him to get away from home in the United States for a while. Due to everything that is going on, the American Harvard sociologist enjoys having a little ‘distance’. ‘I have spent a large part of my life researching how organisations can increase their diversity,’ he says. ‘And if it is up to Donald Trump, many of them are going to stop doing just that.’

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