ARTICLES What is managing diversity and why does it matter? Sharon Mavin and Gill Girling University of Northumbria at Newcastle Abstract: In the UK, human resource practitioners and academics alike are becoming more aware of the emergence of managing diversity. But what does managing diversity actually mean, how does it translate into practice, and what does it matter? The following paper brie y debates the rhetoric of managing diversity and considers whether managing diversity is a distinct approach
comes to building relationships with employees. As a result, they deal with numerous challenges in terms of them coming out to employers, wage inequality, GLBT employee support groups, the effects of GLBT (non) discrimination on the workplace and business outcomes are identified as the major themes of my current review. Social institutions, legal frameworks, and cultural norms were determined as the key pillars of sexual orientation discrimination in the workplace. Sexual Discrimination
leadership organization-wide: change, culture and organizational structure interorganizational (network): outsourcing, organizational networks, strategic alliances and mergers - interdisciplinary roots psychology: work teams, work motivation, training and development. Power and leadership, human resource planning, and workplace wellness sociology: group
Training and development High quality diversity awareness training is one HR function that enhances the effective integration of diverse group members. Awareness training builds a common under- standing of the value of diversity, assisting in building social cohesion so that it improves individual and organizational outcomes. Rynes and Rosen (1995) found in their study that 75% of trainees who took diversity training, left the training with positive diversity attitudes, while only 9% of trainees actually
ACCOMMODATING EMPLOYEES WITH DISABILITIES IN THE WORKPLACE Presented to Mr. Christopher Lee Chief Executive Officer Fanshawe College Prepared by Dana Alhassan Human Resources Manager MEMORANDUM TO: Dr. Christopher Lee, Chief Executive Officer FROM: Dana Alhassan, Diversity Management Manager SUBJECT: Accommodating Employees with Disabilities in the Workplace DATE: December 1, 2014 As part of Fanshawe College’s diversity initiative, here is the
Diversity as an issue is new. It became an issue when three powerfully significant trends reached their own critical points at about the same time (Fernandez & Barr, 1993): The global market in which American corporations must now do business became intensely competitive. The makeup of the U.S. work force began changing dramatically, becoming more diverse. Individuals began to increasingly celebrate their differences and become less amenable to compromising what makes them unique. This inclination
Gender and Diversity in Organizations: Past, Present, and Future Directions Audrey J. Murrell1 University of Pittsburgh Erika Hayes James University of Virginia This introduction reviews some of the key issues that have been studied by researchers focused on gender and diversity in organizations. Issues such as discrimination, affirmative action, barriers to career advancement, and sexual harassment at work are discussed. Although the study of gender and diversity in organizations has expanded
enormous variations in thinking and acting found in the world today due to the cultural differences and at same time anthropological literature has documented many different solutions generated for solving the same problems cross-culturally. Therefore, anthropologists do more than simply document the enormous variations in human cultures by identifying and describing the commonalities of humans amid the great diversity, which are the regularities found in all cultural contexts regardless of how different
Introduction Culture is extremely powerful. The rules of the game, what behavior is ethical and accepted, the mood of the organization, and the enthusiasm of employees are all contained in the culture. So, culture can be a powerful, hidden asset or it can be a liability - a time bomb waiting to go off. If your leadership team has not pro-actively created a corporate culture to support the company's purpose, then chances are that the culture is a hidden liability. Every business has its own character
HR articles: Workplace culture Workplace culture is often hard to describe, because it means something different in every organisation and many times employees feel it’s ‘just the way things are’. But so often it can define a company and when it’s not working well, everyone knows about it. Below are some blog posts on what culture in the workplace is and how to positively cultivate it throughout your business. The happier an employee is at work, the more productive they are. It’s never too late to