Diversity Management Flashcards
What is diversity in the workplace?
The difference or unlikeness in the workplace. Races, ethnicities, age, gender, cultural beliefs and values.
What is diversity management?
The process of managing employees differences and similarities so that individual can achieve maximum personal growth and can contribute positively to organisational goals.
Diversity is categorised into three dimensions. Name them.
1) demographic (gender, age, ethnicity)
2) psychological (values, beliefs, knowledge)
3) organisational (occupation, tenure, hierachy)
Diversity can be observed in three attribute categories:
Observable (gender, age)
Non-observable (values)
Functional (knowledge, skills)
What does affirmative action mean?
A program that an organisation undertakes with the aim of achieving equal opportunity for disadvantaged/minority groups
What is human rights legislation?
Designed to consider the right of people, especially the most vulnerable in society to moral protection
What is Equal Employment Opportunity?
Giving people a fair chance to succeed by avoiding discrimination based on unrelated factors
What is discrimination?
Unfair treatment of a person based on prejudice. Direct,, indirect and structural
What are the three types of discrimination?
Direct, indirect and structural (systematic)
What is direct discrimination?
Direct, where an irrelevant criterion used to exclude a person/group
What is indirect discrimination?
Where a neutral practice advantages an individual or group
What is structural discrimination?
Results from interaction of historical decisions, policies and social attitudes
What are the legal requirements of diversity management in the workplace?
Adherence to anti-discrimination legislation.
Anti-discrimination legislation says that it is illegal to discriminate against someone based on the following characteristics:
Age, Gender Race Impairment Marital/parental status Religious beliefs
What is organisational culture?
An organisational identity that facilitates commitment and shapes employee behaviour.