Glossary

Question 1

Affinity Diagramming

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Data Sorting technique in which a group categorizes and subcategorize data until relationships are clearly drawn

Question 2

Analytical Processing

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Application that can analyze data faster and in more ways than traditional and relational data bases, offering a multi-dimensional analysis of business data.

Question 3

Assests

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Financial, physical and sometimes intangible properties an organization owns.

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Balance Sheet

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Statement of an organizations financial positions at specific point in time, showing assets, liabilities, and shareholder equity.

Question 5

Balanced Scorecard

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Performance management tool that depicts an organizations overall performance, as measured against goals, lagging indicators, and leading indicators.

Question 6

Business Case

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Presentation to management that established that a specific problem exits and argues for a proposed solution

Question 7

Civil Law

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Legal system based on written codes (laws, rules or regulations)

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Code of Conduct

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Principles that guide decision making and behavior in an organization

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Common Law

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Legal system in which each case is considered in terms of how it relates to legal decision that have already been made, evolves through judicial decisions over time.

Question 10

Covering

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Defensive behavior that occurs when an organization recruits a diverse workforce but, consciously or otherwise, promotes assimilation rather inclusion.

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Cultural Intelligence

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Capacity to recognize, interpret, and behaviorally adapt to multicultural situations and contexts.

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Cultural Taxation

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Additional workload that is generated for members of an under-presented group due to their request participation in DE&I efforts. Ex: the extra work faculty and staff of color take on by being the ethnic representation

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Delphi Technique

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Technique that progressively collects information from a group of anonymous respondents. Ex:The experts in question answer the questionnaire anonymously and are then confronted with each other’s knowledge and views. They do not know each other and do not know who else is in the panel of experts.

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Stakeholder

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is anyone whose work or experience is affected by the potential outcome of a chance initiative- including employees, managers, vendors, and customers.

Question 15

SWOT Anyalysis

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Brainstorm strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats and agree on a numerical value for each

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SOAR Analysis

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identify strengths, opportunities, aspirations, and results. This is fact finding, an analysis of the organizations actual state and how it will measure achievement

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MCDA (Multi-criteria decision analysis

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used to score each alternative and compare results. determine critical characteristics of a successful decision.

Question 18

Force-field analysis

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tool used to analyze the forces favoring and opposing a particular change

Question 19

Legacy Diversity

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traits that are easily recognizable & visible, such as external physical characteristics

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Experimental Diversity

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based on living/lived experiences

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Inclusion

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The extent to which each person in an organization feels welcomes, respected, supported, and valued.

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Equity

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The goal is to life all employees up, to attempt to break down demographic barriers and challenges.