Diversity
Diversity
Managing diversity and demographic
changes in the workplace presents many dilemmas. Confronted with constant change, management, business educators, and organizational consultants continue to meet the challenges of a new and diverse workforce in a number of ways. Diversity can be defined in numerous ways. Diversity includes all the ways in which people differ, and it encompasses all the different characteristics that make one individual or group different from another. It is all inclusive and recognizes every individual and every group as part of the diversity that should be valued. A broad definition includes not only race, gender, ethnicity, age, national origin, religion and disability, but may include sexual orientation, values, personality, education, language, physical appearance, marital status, socioeconomic status, religion and so forth.
All these characteristics can impact an individual's attitude and behavior toward people that evolves around him and toward the general public on a daily basis. In this paper, we will examine how ethnicity, differences in skills/abilities, occupation and personality traits impact the behavior of people in society and/or how it can impact my own behavior as well.
Many people have a very shallow view of racial and ethnic diversity. They see it as simply the belief that one race is superior to another. It is much more than that. It is a fundamental (and fundamentally wrong) view of human nature. Racism is the notion that one's race determines one's identity. It is the belief that one's convictions, values, ideology, and character are determined not by the judgment of one's mind but by one's anatomy or "blood." This view causes people to be condemned or praised based on their racial membership. In turn, it leads them to condemn or praise others on the same basis. In fact, one can gain an authentic sense of pride only from one's own achievements, not from inherited genetic...
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