Diversity Awareness Papers

Diversity Awareness is the concept that I find most important out of the module eight lesson. Diversity is something that I and everyone deals with every day in their work center. I work with contractors as well. Some of them former military and some not and that add an extra layer to the work place diversity. Diversity awareness is extremely important to my work center. Without it working relationships suffer, productivity drops, and mission effectiveness decreases. What is diversity awareness exactly? It is the ability to recognize and respond to the needs of various groups within an organization. By doing this you improve working relationships, productivity, customer satisfaction, and unit and mission effectiveness. This means being aware of and embracing other people’s beliefs and cultures even if they are different than your own. Everyone is important and has something to contribute no matter what race, sex, religion, political beliefs, and socio-economic status. This is especially true in the Air …show more content…
I can accomplish this in several ways and the one way I can do that is communication. By communicating with my subordinates and peers I can get a better understanding of their back ground. Having a better understanding of a peoples backgrounds I can better team people up so they can play off each other’s strength and weaknesses. As a leader and NCO I must set an example as well. I must reprimand people who want to diminish other people because they are different. This will show my subordinates, peers and even supervision that this is not tolerated and counterproductive. As a shop, we can come together once a month or more to talk about our diversity as a shop and we can go over diversity awareness. It will highlight our differences and we can clear up any questions people might have. I believe doing these things will make us a more cohesive