INTRODUCTION Relating and working with people who hold different perspectives and different views brings different qualities to the workplace. Diversity consists of visible and non-visible differences that include sex‚ age‚ background‚ race‚ disability‚ personality and work style. This means that diversity has an impact on the products and services developed by the workforce and on personal‚ interpersonal‚ and organizational activities. Managers of diverse work groups need to understand how their
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Running Head: WORKPLACE DIVERSITY Workplace Diversity Eastern Kentucky University‚ FSE320 Abstract Diversity is a one word definition of the population throughout the world today. Times have changed most people just have not realized it yet. As we progressively become more and more diverse in all aspects of life‚ people need to accept diversity and understand that things aren’t going to go back to the way they used to be. For people to accept change it is going to have to start at the
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Lockwood‚ N.R. (2005). Workplace Diversity: Leveraging the Power of Difference for Competitive Advantage. HRMagazine‚ 50(6)‚1. Retrived from EBSCO host This article is an example of how broad diversity within companies has become in current years. The broad definition of diversity includes an employee’s personality and work style to the visible dimensions‚ to secondary dimensions‚ to work diversities (Lockwood‚ 2005). The concept of workplace diversity is changing from compliance to inclusion
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ethnicity‚ religion‚ sexual orientation and capabilities. Nowadays‚ workplace diversity has started to receive wide attention and become an important issue in the business world as diversity in the workplace has increased. As differences are often been associated with discrimination‚ bias‚ unfair treatment and conflicts‚ managing diversity in workforce is an important task for managers today. Managing diversity in the workplace refers to the ways of managers used in ensuring employees in the organizations
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Diversity in a Workplace Discrimination are more common in workplaces‚ because some people only think of discrimination as making a distinction and judgment of a person based on color of skin. Discrimination goes far beyond color of skin. A person can be disseminated agonist for their age‚ disability‚ gender‚ religion‚ or even for being pregnant. In a workplace there are standards and policies in place to decrease the chances of a person being discriminated against. When the staff is diverse
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Connecting Conceptual knowledge to the Workplace The term workforce diversity is usually brought about when you speak about discrimination in the workplace. The problem stemming from discrimination within the workplace can be vast and there are many different types of discrimination within the workplace. To understand discrimination you must first understand the behavior of humans and the levels of diversity. The levels of diversity can give insight on why behaviors of employees may change toward
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Diversity in the Workplace Robert W. Cabino Excelsior College Diversity is important in the workplace because a diverse population has different ethnic backgrounds‚ experiences‚ knowledge and cultural understanding. The Navy ’s Diversity and Inclusion ’s Mission statement is "Attract‚ develop‚ and retain a high-quality‚ diverse workforce that values a culture of inclusion". With a Diverse work environment‚ the Navy is able to solve problems and implement a new variety
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Pamela D Jones 1306BMGT3916980 Managing Diversity in the Workplace 19 June 2013 Topic Introduction With this paper we are going to explore the potential effect of population expansion and its consequences on the diversity of the workplace. The paper will show the steps that can be taken by companies to prepare for these changes that will affect current and future employees. It will also bring into the forefront some of the challenges‚ and
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Diversity in the Workplace‚ an Asset if Monitored Efficiently Introduction “It’s hard to define what diversity is because everyone has an opinion” (Working Woman magazine‚ October 2000) Workplace diversity is a personal issue‚ and it focusses on the characteristics that are brought into the firm. Whether it is attributes or differences that separate these people‚ these cultural dimensions that are introduced to any workforce can provide businesses with different options for further business growth
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The workplace changed while we weren’t looking. No longer is it dominated by white middle class men. With changes‚ increased minorities numbers and the movement of women in the workplace‚ companies need to address issues of diversity in the workplace. The field of diversity has gone beyond even culture and gender but also recognizes that different styles and approaches can be useful to have in any workplace. "In an ideal world‚ every person is treated equally when it comes to getting a job‚ advancing
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