Cultural Capital: How Companies Rob Employees
This workshop is designed to both guide participants through the concept of insider trading, as it applies to systems of employment, and to offer ways in which leadership can actively value and use the skills employees bring with them to increase ROI. To help participants through this journey, we will use Paolo Friere’s banking metaphor where employees are the customers and investors, the office setting is the bank, leadership, and colleagues are the bankers, and wealth/capital is analogous to skills and promotions. The premise of the session is based on a basic proposition: minoritized individuals come to work rich in cultural capital; however, during their workday, some employees seem to earn more wealth while others seem to lose it. Simply put, the game of work is rigged. Participants will leave with greater insights into how they might contribute to insider trading themselves.