Counteracting the threats to DEI: The answer is accountability

[...]tracking and monitoring the success of organizational DEI efforts demonstrates a genuine commitment to those efforts. Even beyond the concerns of critics, organizations should generally monitor the outcomes of their diversity programs to ensure resources are being allocated to programs that are achieving their goals, particularly given the variability in effectiveness for different types of diversity initiatives (Bezrukova et al., 2016, Devine & Ash, 2022). [...]we believe that DEI accountability should not just be the responsibility of managers and leaders; DEI accountability must start from the top and be shared across all individuals within the organization (Sheen, 2022).