The practice of tracking accountability through performance management is a great way for companies to advance diversity in their management teams, while at the same time promoting qualified staff from within. Performance management is a tool that managers can use to gauge how well their employees are doing their jobs, and to ensure that they are meeting their goals. This approach can facilitate efforts to promote from within people from social, gender or racial/ ethnic minority groups, while ensuring that their level of work is of high quality—including in comparison to managers hired from outside the company.

While diversity and ...