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18 Cards in this Set
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Diversity
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Individual characteristics, experiences, and abilities. Differences in people. Handle diversity positively because it brings different abilities to the table
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2 different dimensions of diversity
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Primary dimension - gender, age, race, ethnicity ( things that cannot be changed)
Secondary dimension - work ethic, income, experience, religion( things that can be changed) |
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Diversity awareness
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Recognize and respond to various groups in an organization which promotes mission effectiveness
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Equal opportunity
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Legal mandates prohibiting discrimination on race color, sex, age, ETEC ETEC
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Affirmative action
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Overcomes imbalance for designated diversity
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Socially sensitive
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Be receptive to emotions, personality, temperament, and cultural differences
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Diversity supportive environments
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act proactively - intergrate diversity into everyday actions.
Leadership driven - top management endorses. Encourage ownership - everyone is bought into diversity. Think inclusively - everyone is valuable. Mainstream diversity - organisation includes everyone |
5 supportive environments
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Diversity issues
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Racial segregation, dont ask dont tell, including women in front line unit
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Social behavioral tendencies
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Assumptions, stereotypes, social bias, perception, perspectives, collusion , prejudices, discrimination
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8 social behavioral tendencies
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Assumptions
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Taking liberty of declaring something about a situation item or someone that is not supported by fact
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Stereotypes
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Fixed or distorted generalization about all members of a particular group that share a particular diversity characteristic
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Social biases
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And inclination or predisposition of temperament or Outlook a personal and sometimes and reason judgement. where one unfairly favors or prefer one person culture group race to another
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Perceptions
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What we observe and experience become our reality until we are convinced or proven otherwise
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Perspectives
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How we mentally view or see a situation or the world around us from a particular angle
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Collusion
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Occurs when people cooperate with others knowingly or unknowingly, to reinforce behaviors that prevent others from fully entering into the workplace culture. Can take the form of silence, denial, or active participation
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Prejudices
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the creation of an adverse or unreasonable opinion about a person or group without gathering all the facts and is usually based on deeply held beliefs
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Discrimination
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The visible act, or consideration to act, in favor or agsinst person or thing based on the group, class, or category to which that person or thing belongs to rather than on individual merit alone
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Fairway
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Feedback, assistance, inclusion, respect
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