COMM 300: Diversity

From BluWiki

Diversity

• What creates both conflict and creativity? Differences!
  • Poorly managed differences create conflict
  • Well managed differences create creativity

DIVERSITY = DIFFERENCES

• Types of diversity
  • Gender
  • Race
  • Cultural ethnicity
  • Able bodied / disabled
  • Age related
  • Class
  • Ability & expreience

• Why when you descriminate on diversity?
  • ONLY when whatever factor impacts the employee's performance on the job

Descrimination

• Descrimination is absolutly required in daily life
  • However, it must be used effectively

Thomas & Ely's 3 Diversity Paradigms

• Discrimination & fairness
  • Demographic diversity, usually companies here diversify because they have to
• 2. Access and legitimacy
  • e.g.: access to more diverse clientele. Diversity adds value to company.
• 3. Learning & effectiveness
  • Company usually moves to this step when a undervalued group adds an unusally large value to the organization
  • Diversity embeded in all organizational structures & practices
  • This is when people only consider value to company, not race / gender.