COM 315 Lecture 6: Chapter 6
4 Oct 2018
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There has been a tendency to downplay the adverse implications of diversity in recent years. There is a fundamental difference between attributes that make a person a unique human being and those that- based on group membership rather than individual characteristics- yield negative or positive consequences (p. 114) Workplace diversity is not about the anthropological differences between people that. Make them special ; diversity is about belonging to groups that are visibly or invisibly different from whatever is considered mainstream in society (p. 115) Geographic region, gender, race, ethnicity, or other distinguishable characteristics may thus define a person as belonging to a more- or less favored group and can have either beneficial or detrimental consequences for one"s job prospects (p. 116) The globalizing economy with its trends of immigration and worker migration makes workforce diversity an increasingly common phenomenon in many countries around the world (p. 116)
