Diversity in Organizations
If we are to successfully change organizational members' attitudes and perceptions toward people from cultural groups other than their own, then we must start by examining how to effect that change so that it is implemented through all four layers of diversity. The approach that this paper discusses is based on the following model:
Individual Behaviors -- Group Behaviors -- Organizational Behaviors
This paper analyzes results of diversity training studies and provides direction as to the optimum approach to modifying the diversity climate within an organization.
A Time magazine article reported on the efforts of researchers who sifted through decades of federal employment statistics provided by companies (Cullen, 2007). Their analysis showed that there was no real change in the number of women and minority managers after companies began diversity training. When the study results are analyzed more closely, one finds that how well companies promoted a diversity climate was a function of the type of training that they provided. For example, companies that implemented mentorship training programs produced striking results:
"At companies that assigned a person or committee to oversee diversity, ensuring direct accountability for results, the number of minorities and women climbed 10% in the years following the appointment. Mentorships worked too, particularly for black women, increasing their numbers in management 23.5%. Most effective is the combination of all these strategies (Cullen, 2007)."
What these results tell us is that when diversity training is imposed upon the individuals of an organization by the organization, few behavioral changes result. Change occurred only when individual managers were given or took responsibility...
Diversity Orgs The following table covers the websites: National Women's Law Center http://www.nwlc.org This org works to make changes in the legal environment concerning women and girls. Human Rights Campaign https://www.hrc.org/ LGBT rights org. Civil rights org, raises awareness, launches campaigns, highlights issues Equality Federation http://equalityfederation.org/ Fighting for LGBT rights, especially at the legal level The status of women in the United States for most of its history has been quite poor, with respect to rights and opportunity. For most of
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