Steps to Reduce Negative Effects of Diversity

Based on your knowledge of the various layers of diversity along with the process model of diversity, what steps would you take as a manager to manage diversity, and reduce potential negative effects of diversity? Explain the steps in terms of ways that you would manage and reduce potential negative effects of diversity.

“Diversity represents the multitude of individual differences and similarities that exist among people” (McGraw-Hill). There are different layers of diversity in the workplace. The first layer is organizational dimensions, which consists of work location, seniority, management status, department etc. The next layer is external dimension such as income, religion, appearance, marital status etc. The third layer is internal dimension such as race, ethnicity, physical ability, sexual orientation, and gender. The last layer is personality. So it’s important to understand that if you have a group of people and they are all the same gender and race there can still be diversity amongst that group of people.

As a manager I think it’s important to encourage diversity in the workplace. The first step as a manager if given the opportunity would be the selection of my team. I would hire people from different that consisted of different genders, race, and cultures. I would communicate to my team that diversity is encourage in the work environment. I incorporate team building exercises in the workplace so the employees could learn more about each other. Diversity would be incorporated into the department policy and each employee would be required to read and sign the policy. When selecting teams to work on a project I would make sure that there is diversity amongst the team. I think would assign the members of the team...

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...any’s success. Lastly, resource acquisition is where a company has the resources it needs in order to function and be successful.

I have worked for mechanistic organization and an organic organization. Each company was to their extremes. I have to say that my preference is to work for a company that has a balance between mechanistic and organic. However, both companies were successful in their approaches and they both have goals defined in order to be successful.

Whether a company is a mechanistic or organic it is important for them to have goals. In my opinion the best approach for a mechanistic or organic company is goal accomplishment. In order for a company to be successful is defined by their goals. How they reach those goals is not what matter the most.

References

McGraw-Hill Education (2013). Organizational Behavior. United States of America