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If I were a director of an ABA company that was predominantly 90% white, Caucasian men, I would constantly prioritize and provide cultural opportunities and events that vigorously promote diversity and cultural awareness within the workplace. The cultural environment of the workplace would exemplify a diverse and culturally inclusive world, especially within the scope of behavior analytics. As the director, I would provide training, seminars, and workshops in which behavioral therapists could learn about diversity and become aware of their cultural values and beliefs. According to the study by Fong et al., (2017), the more experienced the behavioral practitioners, the greater importance they give to cultural competency in the workplace and when interacting with clients. That is, although ABA lacks culturally aware and diverse resources and training procedures, many passionate ABA professionals desire to be more culturally inclusive, aware, and diverse in the workplace and in different approaches when working with clients. “A culturally diverse group of behavioral analysts can serve as a valuable pool of informers who can share their cultural knowledge and contribute to the development of cultural concepts relevant to behavior-analytic theory, research, and practice in line with the core mission and principles of ABA (Fong et al., 2017, p. 106).” That is, a culturally diverse group of ABA professionals can serve as a committee, as cultural informers, and as valuable contributors to developing culturally diverse ABA concepts, measurement design, analysis to implement educational resources and training procedures. Therefore, as the director, I would focus on educating, diversifying, and training my staff to support and embrace cultural awareness and inclusivity. I would choose the more knowledgeable and culturally sensitive employees to represent the leadership within my company to promote diversity within the workplace. “When individual behavior analysts do not operate within an environment with other behavior analysts, they should initiate connections with other behavior analysts through professional organizations, conference sessions, or seminars to access support and consultation as needed (Mayer et al., 2018, p. 781).” That is, to provide my staff with more ethical and culturally diverse workplace opportunities, I would connect my employees in diverse teams, provide shadowing opportunities, and help employees learn from other employees who are culturally diverse in life and the workplace. “Future work also needs to examine the cultural backgrounds of behavior analysts and consumers, culturally diverse consumers’ access to and satisfaction with ABA services, and ways in which ABA can reach and connect with culturally diverse populations (Fong et al., p. 110).” That is, as the director of the ABA company, to establish cultural training designs for behavior analysts and reach culturally diverse clients, I must first encourage my employees to start by self-examining their own cultures concerning the cultures of the clients they represent and measure how many culturally diverse clients are receiving services and how many culturally diverse clients are satisfied with services. Culturally diverse client percentages and satisfaction rates can help shed light on my staff’s cultural sensitivity and awareness. I would address biases and discrimination and have my employees complete self-assessments to help them become more aware of their biases. “One assessment tool, the “Diversity Self-Assessment” (2017). Diversity and cultural awareness must be self-examined, self-assessed, educated, and trained to be practiced within the company for our service to represent our diverse clientele and remain unbiased and individualized.
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