UCLA’s Anderson School of Management has a culture that hurts the
hiring and promotion of women through both institutional and
“unconscious bias,” according to a new report commissioned by the
graduate business school. The Korn Ferry consulting firm’s report
being released Thursday urges changes in recruitment, promotion and
leadership styles at the school, which is led by a woman, Dean Judy
Olian, but has only 18 women on the 82-person faculty. Among other
things, the study calls for more forceful action by Olian for “gender
equity.” Many highly-rated graduate business schools across the country are
male-dominated both in student enrollment and faculty. At Anderson,
complaints about such an environment have been simmering for a decade. An internal report in 2006 focused on why women faculty
were leaving the school at a high rate and a 2013 study by the
campus-wide faculty Senate found the business and management school
“inhospitable to women.”The
new report does not call for the removal of Olian, who has been dean
since 2006. But it states that Anderson leaders “have not demonstrated
the focused intention and proactive behavior required to increase
diversity.” And it said that “many faculty do not trust the dean and do
not believe she is serious about gender equality.” Olian, in an interview, said she accepts the report’s recommendations and will work to implement them. “It’s
somewhat painful. But it’s something we are all learning from,” she
said, adding that she is going to “loudly and forcefully” lead efforts
for change at the school. She and a faculty committee commissioned the
study...
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