Art Museum Research Paper

Organizational Diversity in Art Museum Curating

Chapter One

Introduction

Within today’s public and private business sectors, organizational diversity is considered to be a vital attribute causing rapid growth in controversial debates. Many of the adversarial perspectives regarding organizational diversity have manifested in various organizations due to the implementation of laws, sanctions, programs and other initiatives designed and mandated to create a more equalized employment workforce. Some of the many antidiscrimination programs and governmental agencies have attempted to regulate policies related to discriminatory practices in a business organizational structure by incorporating more severe consequences for prejudicial acts and monitoring

In modern business environments, diversity has become a fashionable area of interest for organizations in an area where more contemporary organizations proudly represent themselves through many media sources.

With many existing organizations choosing a more traditional approach, organizational diversity has been less than desirable in a large number of other organizations (Carr-Ruffino, 1996). The more antiquated philosophies of traditional business models perceive a diverse structure as a hindrance to the more socially accepted growth of the organizational task force This is a glance into one of the many ideals which helps one to better identify the root of most failures when such groups attempt to diversify organizations. Where are the curator positions for people of color within the museum industry?

Some companies claim to suffer a gross reduction in production as a result of a diverse workforce. Some opponents have said that diversification hampers their employees’ mutual delivery to the organization is there a correlation between lack of production and the lack of commonalities amongst this organization? These same organizations have failed in properly integrating diverse groups within their groups into a culturally diversified organization. Could this be attributed to passive resistance of the