However, sustained engagement on issues of
equity and inclusion, activities that place participants in the situations that oppressed people experience (what I call «addressing the empathy gap»),
and setting goals — much
like the one Starbucks envisioned a decade ago regarding pay
equity — are some examples of evidence - based best practices.
«Empowerment Voice» is exhibited in an actor possessing, at various degrees of capacity, an ability to command the institutional form
and language of the power structural arrangements in which the conflict arises, sufficient to effect long term distributive concessions, sometimes permanent, however,
like Protest Voice, actors engaged in Empowerment Voice are unlikely to achieve reconstruction of the power structural arrangements, instead they are more likely to engage in an effort to preserve the existing power structural arrangement to maintain perceived socioeconomic advantage, or to be unable to identify how the power structural arrangements might be reconstructed in a way that does not perpetuate the underlying source of conflict, namely the imbalances of
inclusion and equity resulting from the hyper - segregated hierarchical power regime.