Differences Of Workplace Diversity In Facebook Inc.

Workplace diversity in Facebook Inc.

Diversity can be defined as acknowledging, understanding, accepting, and valuing differences among people with respect to age, class, race, ethnicity, gender, disabilities, etc. (Katharine C. Esty, 1995). Griggs found that diversity not only include differences in age, race, gender, physical ability, sexual orientation, religion, socioeconomic class, education, region of origin, language but also differences in life experience, position in family, personality, job function, rank within hierarchy, and other such characteristics that go into forming an individual’s perspective (Griggs, 1995).

While workplace diversity means similarities and differences among employees in terms of age, cultural background, physical abilities and disabilities, race, religion, gender, and

women” topic. Based on our observation on Facebook Inc., the diversity in terms of gender in Facebook are very often being an issue to the company. The issues are about the hiring process and how many man or women are employed in the company. The fact that Facebook employees are dominated by man in tech and senior leadership. According to Nick Statt, in the last year Facebook has managed to hire more women and minorities as their staff because they discover that the most tech company also has less male employees (Statt, 2017). However, Facebook faced a problem to hire more women in which the number of minorities and women take the College Board’s Advanced Placement exam in Computer Science are not favorable. For example, Maxine William the Facebook’s global director of diversity said that the seven states that are going to take the exam had not more than ten girls take the Advanced Placement Computer Science exam and no girls took the exam in three states (Beres, 2016). So, in the result of the problem, in 2016 there is sixty-seven percent of Facebook employees are male overall (Beres,