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Considerations Leaders Need to Take Into Account Regarding Diversity
As globalization and the influx of qualified job candidates moves with greater fluidity from one city to another, there has never been a more critical time for leaders to take into account how they will manage diversity. Hiring for skills, insight, intellect and talent is the new requirement; no one can afford to be so myopic as to hire purely on appearance or race alone. A leader must take into account an entire range of considerations when hiring an ethnically diverse workforce, and these include the following. First, there needs to be an understanding and respect of culturally appropriate ways of communicating, in addition to a realization that personal space is often part of how people communicate in cultures (Davidhizar & Giger 2000). In addition there needs to be a sensitivity to how the social organizations of the persons' culture varies from ones' own, and a striving for and sensitivity to cultural dependencies as well (Davidhizar & Giger 2000). What is most striking about initiating a diversity program is the radically different perception of time across cultures, which often drives differences in expectations and accountability as well Kouzes, J & Posner, B (2003).
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