MGT 467 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cognitive Flexibility, Advantageous, Problem Solving
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Diversity - real or perceived differences among people that affect their interactions and relationships. Differences based on power or dominance relations between identity groups. Identity groups - collectivities used by individuals to categorize themselves and others. Stem from historical disparities in treatment, opportunities, and outcomes. More likely to work in primary labor market, which includes jobs in large organizations, with more opportunities for higher pay, status, advancement, retirement, vacation, and medical benefits. More likely to work in secondary labor market of low-skilled, low-paid, insecure service-sector jobs that offer little or no opportunities for advancement, or health, vacation, or retirement benefits. Diversity categories are not mutually exclusive and are subject to change. Sex is biological and gender is socially constructed. Socially constructed to denote boundaries between the powerful and less powerful. By the year 2000, 85% of the net new entrants to the u. s. workforce were women and minorities.
