Cultural Diversity Recognition for Managers
Introduction
This is a three (3) day workshop that we have consolidated into 90 minutes
There will be no breaks so if you need to use the restroom or get coffee go ahead and do so. Don’t let the fact that your drawing attention to yourself intimidate you.
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What Is Diversity?
Valuing diversity is defined as understanding, respecting, and viewing basic human differences as an asset.
Aspects of Diversity
Primary Dimensions of Diversity:
Secondary Dimensions of Diversity:
The core of our individual identities, the things
The things that we can more easily change.
that we can’t change.
(List partial.)
Age
Sexual orientation
Income
Geographic location
Ethnicity [...]
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Generational Table
The Best Generation
Veterans
Baby
Boomers
GEN-XERS
NEXTERS
Time Line
(1922-1943)
(1943-1960)
(1960-1980)
(1980-ON)
Number
52 Million
73.2 Million
70.1
69.7 Million and counting
Defining Events
Patriotism
Families
The Great Depression
World Ware II
New Deal
Korean War
Golden Age of Radio
Silver Screen
Postwar Rise of Labor Unions
Prosperity
Children in the spotlight
Television
Suburbia
Assassinations
Vietnam
Civil Rights movement
Cold War
Women’s Lib
Space Race
Watergate
Stagflation
Latchkey kids
Single parents
MTV
AIDS
Computers
Challenger
Fall of Berlin Wall
Glasnost
Wall Street Frenzy
September 11, 2001
The age of rage
Oklahoma City
Computers
School Violence
Oklahoma City bombing
TV Talk Shows
Reality TV
It takes a village
Mutlticulurism
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Gender and Age
The culture in which we are raised predetermines for us how things are suppose to work. At an early age we begin to learn of Cultural Software. Cultural programming guides our behavior. Without this programming we would be as useless as a computer without software. Culture teaches us how to interact with [...]
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Comparing Norms and Values
Dimension
Mainstream
America
Culture
Non-Mainstream
American
Culture
Materialism
Material goals
Spiritual/Material
Age
Youth Oriented
Maturity Oriented
Authority
Democratic
Authority Centered
Mobility
High
Low
Structure
Informal
Formal
Family
Family ’s role weakening
Extremely Strong
Expression of Love
Open
Reserved
Explicitness in
Communication
Direct
Indirect
Working Environment
Competitive
Collaborative
Problem Solving
Direct Approach
Indirect
Work
Orientation
Importance of Task/
Profit
Importance of
People
Rate of
Promotion
Fast
Slow
Job Security
Infrequent
Frequent
Work Pace
Fast
Slow
Basis for
Promotion
Performance
Tenure
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