Employee/Employer Relations
Professor Bagwell
December 3, 2008
Abstract
Diversity is a wider concept than just ethnicity, race and gender. Other unique characteristics such as age, culture, style, education, religious beliefs, and sexual orientation also contribute to diversity. Promoting workforce diversity is difficult for organizations especially the larger ones. If conflicts can be controlled performance and productivity may be increased. There are also many advantages to diversity especially in the workplace. We can all gain if we learn how to accept and understand diversity.
We live in multi cultural and multi ethnic societies and diversity is more than being nice to someone that is different, you must accept and try to understand the difference. Everyone is affected by diversity it is in the schools, workplace, church, and in the communities. We as people must learn to accept others with life styles, family needs, educational backgrounds and work ethics that are different from our own. Although there are many definitions diversity is the sense of belonging no matter where you come from or who you are. Even though most think of sex and race when they here diversity it is a much wider concept that is often not completely understood. Other unique characteristics such as age, culture, style, education, religious beliefs, and sexual orientation also contribute to diversity. In the 1950’s the workforce mainly consisted of white males and contained little to no diversity. This changed when the laws under the federal legislation prohibited employment discrimination. In 1964 Title VII of the Civil Rights Act
