We live in a diverse society and diversity in the workplace has become much talked about. Learn about diversity with respect to culture, ethnic background, gender, and how to harness the power of diversity in the workplace.
By Jose Soto
- Following are 21 competencies that will facilitate and enhance your personal and professional involvement within the context of multicultural and diverse settings.
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By Lee Gardenschwartz and Anita Rowe
- Some organizations are dismantling barriers at the systems level by revamping performance management, modifying promotional processes, instituting mentoring programs and flexing schedules and benefits. However, at an even more basic level of every day operations, diversity can be made a part of the way you do business.
Here are seven ways to get you started.
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By CYnthia Fox
- The term "affirmative action" is being used as a catchall phrase. Affirmative action can be separated into three categories: contract set-asides, college scholarships and enrollments, and employment issues. The negative backlash to affirmative action seems to have come from the media and politicians who have equated the term with quota systems and preferential treatment.
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By Paul Kivel
- Affirmative action works. There are thousands of examples of situations where people of color, white women, and working class women and men of all races who were previously excluded from jobs or educational opportunities, or were denied opportunities once admitted, have gained access through affirmative action.
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By Paul Rockwell
- For over 25 years opponents of affirmative action for women and people of color have overlooked a key American reality - the role of affirmative action in the lives of white men. Opposition to affirmative action is based on selective inattention to the social props on which white men themselves depend. It is not affirmative ation itself, but affirmative action for women and people of color that is under constant attack.
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Need to learn how to interact in another country so as not to offend? Find information relating to international etiquette, doing business across cultures and hints and tips for working with specific cultures
Workplace diversity can be complicated. Here are some suggestions regarding books on diversity, women's issues, affirmative action and discrimination issues.
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