BUAD309 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Millennials, Ethnocentrism, Knowledge Worker

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Business Administration
• Course: BUAD309
• Professor: Meg Reno

Document Summary

Types of diversity and barriers to inclusion: diversity. The variety of observable and unobservable similarities and di erences among people: types of diversity. Surface-level: can be seen directly (e. g. race, gender) Deep-level: can"t be seen directly (e. g. goals, skills) Variety: meaningful di erences in a certain type or category (e. g. knowledge, functional background) Disparity: di erences in concentration of valuable assets (e. g. authority, pay, Monday, september 24, 2018 status: projected trends in u. s. diversity by 2050. Proportion of blacks, asians, and hispanics will increase. Talent shortages will increase: age diversity. Reverse mentoring: pairing a junior employee with a senior employee to transfer technical/computer skills from the junior employee to the senior one: generations (by birth year) Generation y / millennials: 1980 2000. Generation z: 2001-on: the business case for diversity. Title vii of the civil rights act prohibits discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin: barriers to inclusion.