My Leadership Rubric : I Choose Diversity

Diversity is a wonderful asset to an organization and brings with it many benefits. Employees bring in their own personal experiences and knowledge to the team (Burns & Kerby, 2012). Having diverse teams allows for the possibility to fix a problem or perfect a process by using different employee’s experiences and past knowledge to find solutions. A diverse workforce can drive economic growth and capture a greater share of the consumer market (Burns & Kerby, 2012). With diversity as a core value, the recruitment pool is widened to find the most qualified candidate and reduces employee turnover as a result. An organization can be highly competitive with a diversity initiative by adapting to a changing environment (Burns & Kerby, 2012).

1.1 Explain Models of practices that underpin equality, and diversity and inclusions in own area of responsibility.

The purpose of this paper is designed to introduce, educate, and promote diversity within your company. Your company will be shown the merits of diversity and how diversity within your organization can be a benefit. This paper will be broken down into three main areas: Benefits of Diversity, Challenges of Diversity, and Recommendations for an effective diversity within your organization..

The artifact allowed me to gain knowledge in the approaches of diversity leadership issues. Thomas (1995) offers eight basic leadership responses as an approach to diversity. The foster mutual adaption response approach, “…unequivocally endorses diversity” (Thomas, 1995, p. 251). Thomas (1995) states that under this approach, “…the parties involved accept and understand differences and diversity, recognizing full well that those realities may call for adaption on the part of all components of the whole” (p. 251). Thomas (1995) purposes a diversity framework be used to as a, “… point of departure for evolving a framework to guide managers in making decisions regarding diversity mixtures of all kinds” (p. 252). The framework processes revolve around three objectives for leadership as recognize diversity mixtures present, decide whether a response is required, and select an appropriate response or blended response (Thomas,

The next step would be to investigate each individual 's personality, learning style, skill set, attitudes and other key factors that would be diverse in relation to the team. Hubbard uses the term “behavioral diversity as encompassing work styles, thinking styles, learning styles, communication styles, aspirations,beliefs/value systems as well as changes in the attitudes and expectation on the part of employees. (2014, p. 27)” This explanation of behavioral diversity (Hubbard, 2004) expounds and gives additional insight in regards to deep-level diversity.

Diversity and inclusion are critical strategies for any organization that wants to be successful in business. Organizations cannot expect for diversity and inclusion to appear and work smoothly within the workplace automatically. Diversity and inclusion is a journey that companies must take to reap the rewards of being a truly global business. There are eight steps that organizations can apply to their workplace that will make diversity and inclusion a smooth and fun journey. Organizations can start the inclusion process by first learning the eight steps to inclusion in the workplace.

I suddenly woke up, and quickly shifted my eyes towards my phone to check the time on my phone. Looking at the time with nervousness, I realized that I had slept in and would have been late to the Friday prayer at my local mosque. I ran to the bathroom, brushed my teeth, performed wudu (preparation and physical cleanliness to eliminate impurities), and raced to my car, hoping that I would not miss the prayer. Thankfully when I arrived, I had not missed out on the opportunity to complete the prayer on time. After the imam, or priest, finished the prayer, my fellow Muslim brothers and I went out to the almost dismantled basketball hoops in the back parking lot to start a pickup game. We played for a couple of hours, having the time of our lives with each other. I always look forward to Fridays during the summer because for me, these are the perfect days, and they are the days that I cherish the most. At Johns Hopkins University, I believe that my passion and love for religion and sports will show through the specific aspects that make the University

Cultural shapes how individuals experience the world around them. These experiences are a vital component of how services are both delivered and received. Gladding (2012) describes three key aspects of a multicultural leader. The first key aspect is to be aware of a diverse population and the effect on group work interventions (Gladding, 2012). To better facilitate a multicultural group, a leader

Two of the biggest challenges facing my organization is communication barriers and diversity in leadership. Being able to effectively communicate with co-workers and members of the credit union is important. Often, we encounter situations where the member does not speak English and it difficult to assist them. Next, diversity in leadership roles shows visibility in the workplace. Organizations that do not support or nurture a diverse workplace might be able to recruit such talent; however, retaining such talent has proved to be a challenge for organizations (Martinelli, 2016).

I feel that diverse representation is not only important, but also a must in order to be successful in creating a more equal and efficient leadership team. The items in this module helped reveal how the lack of diverse leadership greatly affects an individual’s self-esteem and confidence on whether or not they believe they are capable in accomplishing their dreams. In the TED talk Sheryl Sandberg revealed how woman often think that they are not capable of completing certain tasks because of their gender, but in fact they are just as capable as men and in some cases even more capable. Their lack of confidence affected their decision on whether or not they should even try certain tasks. This is why diverse leadership representation is important.

Diversity in culture and demographic characteristics can be a negative impact or be one of the team's greatest strengths, depending on how the team as a whole functions and applies these different “routes to success”. A group can become a high performing team by understanding how cultural and demographic differences influence group behavior. The groups must realize that they can benefit from their diversity to their advantage and into a high performance team.

Well-managed diversity programs can benefit an organization in terms of the business case for diversity and the stakeholders in terms of the involvement of employees, suppliers and community. John Robinson lists five requirements for effective diversity leadership: making diversity visible, being specific about what needs to be done, evaluating for results, providing constant reinforcement, and making change international. This requires commitment from top management, and the necessary resources to make diversity an advantage. Diversity leadership requires at least two main components at its directive level. The first is that the CEO must champion diversity, and have a diverse board of directors, and second, to appoint a chief diversity officer, to oversee, coordinate and manage an organization’s diversity initiative.

Diversity within leadership allows for multiple facets of a project to seamlessly run in accordance with the remainder of the project. The diversity I would bring to Freshmen Leaders On Campus is that of the liberal arts study area. Organizations, especially at University of Texas at Arlington, tend to be heavy in engineering or nursing. I would like to help represent liberal arts in order to show that leaders are not restricted to STEM areas of study. Music in particular requires hours of determination, difficult practice, discipline, knowledge of physics, and a broad imagination. I have developed my leadership abilities through the discipline and determination learned through music. My ability to take notes written on a page and use my imagination

Leadership includes vision, skill, communication, as well as a lot of commitment. The leader must address the word diversity in order to be successful. Diversity is used in everyday situations whether that is to refer to people’s race, gender, and religion. Every Sunday or any church event diversity appears towards my belief of being Methodist. Every time I fill out a serve or any type of assignment that is collected that asks me what race I am, diversity is shown. Inclusion is the process of differing individuals into a group. This allows people who believe they are different to come together and start an environment for them to all become one whole. Leaders usually recognize the value of diversity while struggle with creating a comfortable environment.

A leader must first of all be able to model the techniques and processes that they want their teachers to employ with the students. For this reason leaders should use an effective board spectrum of educational tools to help teachers reach students of the 21st century. One of the great tools being used today is the increase in the amount of technology used in the classroom. From iPad to chromo books to cellphones teachers are using these forms of technology to enhance and deliver grade level curriculum (Korach, Agans 2011 216-233).