DESCRIPTION:
Baker decided to initiate a job performance discussion in his waning days at the facility in Barracania with Rennalls to discuss the issue that Rennalls treats the European employees differently than the Barracanian employees. However, in Rennalls’ eyes, Baker’s own repressed sense of race consciousness, and his portrayal of the company’s views and stance on diversity, effectively caused Rennalls to resign.
DIAGNOSIS
Baker’s idea that Rennalls and the rest of Barracania, have had to face the challenge of bridging the commerce gap between themselves and Western civilization, shows his own lack of diversity.
Continental Ore’s management saw that Baker had the knowledge and skillset to “groom” Rennalls as the next chief engineer, but what they did not see was that Baker himself needed to be more diversified and had his own repressed sense of race consciousness, proving that the company as a whole was lacking as a multicultural organization. “The true multicultural organization is characterized by core cultural values and an ongoing commitment to eliminate social oppression and promote dignity and respect for everyone throughout the organization” (Luthans, 2011). They thought they had a diversified mentor in Baker given his background and professional history in the various countries.
THEORY
A theory of diversity is what is in question between Baker and Rennalls. Both Baker and Rennalls have their own flaws in diversification. As a mentor, Baker should have realized that just because he had been placed in many different areas of the world by his company; that does not necessarily qualify him as diversified. The fact that Baker admittedly realized that there was a barrier between Rennalls and himself should have been a clue that there could possibly be something wrong with the way he thought of the native Barracanians, and not just the way Rennalls