Diversity in the Workplace
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Diversity Management in the Workplace
Diversifying the personnel is no easy task for any executive or human resource professional. Searching for a balance between fulfilling EEO requirements and following a defined criteria of quality when choosing employees can be difficult. First and foremost, the job seeker must possess impressive qualities and credentials to be accepted into the company. Second, the human resources representative have the burden of making a decision between qualified professionals and at the same time take into account their backgrounds: ethnicity, gender, disabilities, and preferred lifestyle. And when the right employees were selected, how do we maintain the company's level of performance without causing conflict between employees and between the management and employee?
Diversity Management Articles
The following are articles written by Sondra Thiederman and reprinted from her website. She is a speaker and author on diversity, bias-reduction, and cross-cultural issues. She is the author of Making Diversity Work: Seven Steps for Defeating Bias in the Workplace (Chicago: Dearborn Press, 2003) which is available at her web site or at Amazon.com.
- American Culture: Knowing Yourself In Order to Understand Others
- How often have you said something like, "It seems like every other country has a culture but we don't," or "America is just a hodgepodge of groups -- we don't really have any values that distinguish us?" Even Mark Twain -- often regarded as a spokesperson for 19th century American popular culture -- commented that the only thing Americans have in common as a culture is a fondness for ice water.
Read more... - Language Barriers: Bridging the Gap
- How many languages do you think are being spoken in the United States today? Take a minute to think about it. Survey your friends, neighbors, colleagues, and patients and count how many different languages they speak. If you live in states like New York, New Jersey, or California, you probably fairly quickly reached a figure of thirty or more. If you dug a bit deeper, you might even approximate the actual figure of 400 distinct languages being spoken in the United States today. If we add to this the fact that languages other than English are spoken in at least 14% of all homes, we begin to see the impact that language diversity has on our lives.
Read more... - Formal Mentoring: A Way Around the Barriers of Bias
- Sexism, racism, blatant discrimination -- certainly each of these can be a factor in keeping women and emerging groups from advancing in the workplace. More often, however, the reason is more subtle and, because it is subtle, it is harder to diagnose and difficult to cure. That reason is the subtle biases that cause even the most well-meaning of us to exclude diverse groups from our informal workplace networks.
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Gender Diversity
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- How Men and Women Differ in the Workplace
- Never before in history have men and women worked so closely together. While it is crucial that opportunity and pay are equal, it is not accurate to think that men and women are the same.
Each gender has different communication styles, manners of coping with stress and motivational strategies. Not understanding these differences leads to loss of productivity, increased job stress and even increased risk of legal trouble.
Read more... - Tips for Women & Men Working Together
- In today's workplace and marketplace, it is the competitive advantage of organizations whose people know how to bridge and use the cultural differences between women and men in their everyday operations.
Without stereotyping either gender, and admitting a significant overlap of how both men and women feel and behave - we are more similar than different - there are cultural patterns in how we communicate across gender. These can be stumbling blocks to cooperation if we don't pay attention to them. We can also unlock energy and creativity in each other if we do. Here are five of those patterns and tips for each gender on how to benefit from them.
Read more... - Men At Work
- Men are brought up to think in terms of how they can support family; even as teenagers, boys are made to think about how they can get a "good job" (not a fulfilling or pleasant job, but one which pays the most money). Before they are even old enough to decide what they want to do with their lives, they are already being primed to support a family, and their lives are being molded around the wife and children they don't yet have. Much of what a man does, he does with the thought somewhere in the back of his mind of how much it will cost, or how much he will gain from it (often in money, although power and status are other means of achieving similar ends). If women have to contend with a biological clock, then men have to deal with a biological cash-register. And just as women feel they are being unfairly judged by prospective male partners on their age and looks (in nature, both correlated with reproductive potential), men feel that their attractiveness to a woman depends on their wealth or the ability to acquire it, and their willingness to spend it on her.
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- macutlural.com
- An impressive directory of cultural resources.
- National MultiCultural Institute Global Diversity Search Engine
- Good resource site for anything diversity-related.
- HRM Guide
- HRM Guide is a network of linked HR websites containing hundreds of Human Resource Management-related articles, features and links PLUS bestselling books and travel guides.
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- Search for more Diversity Management resources using the Swicki Search Box!
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guyfarmer
Aug 19, 2010 @ 12:45 pm | delete
- Thank you for the resources. I've found that the more diverse and inclusive our workplaces are the more our organizations benefit. We have access to a larger number of brains and perspectives that can help us get more done and do it more harmoniously. The benefit of diversity is that it adds to our talent pool and simply makes things more enjoyable.
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steven-g
Jul 12, 2009 @ 3:30 am | delete
- great info.... thanks for putting it all together
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papawu
May 17, 2009 @ 8:30 pm | delete
- As a marketing business owner and employer, I think it's important to diversify certainly. However, it's not always about the degrees a person has or how impressive they may seem on paper. I am a salesman so I have had extensive experience in dealing with people in general and have found that while education is great, I have to know how much common sense and ability a person has in order for me to be impressed. Just because they know a lot of crap doesn't mean they know how to perform. I have spent my career taking kids from the inner cities and rural areas of America with practically no education or work experience and trained them myself to succeed. It's has to do with how much heart and desire an individual has and whether they are willing to learn a different if not better way of thinking.
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nascent26 Aug 13, 2008 @ 9:54 pm | delete
- Thank you for all your positive encouragement. :)
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poddys
Aug 9, 2008 @ 6:31 pm | delete
- You have a lot of useful information here, nice job. 5*****
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