The Key Attributes of the diversity competency It is necessary first of all to understand what is meant by diversity competency and the key attributes of the diversity competency. The diversity competency includes knowledge, skills, and abilities to value unique individual, group, and organizational characteristics, embrace such characteristics as potential sources of strength, and appreciate the uniqueness of each.

The key attributes of the diversity competency include the knowledge, skills and abilities of individuals, teams, and the organization to perform effectively.

Diversity includes many categories and characteristics. Even a single aspect of diversity contains various characteristics that may affect individuals, t\team, or organizational behaviors.
Accenture understood that must implement initiatives benefit employees regardless of age and gender to enable balancing between work and life as this is a key factor for high performance in an organization.

Accordingly, Accenture developed Multi work-life programs to meet the employees needs and to give them more time flexibility outside the work place such as :
Back-up dependant care program :when regular care arrangements breakdown
Lifeworks program : health, legal and financial consultation
Future leaves program :eligible employees who met certain attendance requirement can take up to three months to address the personal and family issues during their career life.

Other strategies and recommendations
More workplace flexibilities :Workplace flexibility practices generally fall into three basic categories: Flexible Work Arrangements, which encompass variations in work schedules; Time Off, which includes arrangements for periods away from work; and Career Flexibility, which addresses career development at various career stages.

Author, Don Hellriegel & John W. Sloum, Jr. (2011). Organizational Behavior.USA CENGAGE Learning

The Sloan Center on Aging & Work at Boston College http://workplaceflexibility.bc.edu/Types Fully agree with you, employee’s loyalty is one of the most important and must consider factors in a successful workplace. The high employment turn over in a workplace , the less efficiency the employers gain by return.
Sprint example is a perfect example for work-life initiative in a well known and successful organization.

Hi Norma, I’d focus on the cultures competency & have one hour open discussion on the other’s cultures. In order to succeed in multi-national companies you have to be open minded person , accepting & respecting others.

• Discuss the key attributes of the self competency illustrated by Chris Tserng. with a specific example of each attribute identified.
• Provide a specific example of each attribute identified
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• The self competency includes the knowledge, skills, and abilities to access personal strength and weaknesses, set and pursue professional and personal goals, balance work and personal life, and engage in new learning.
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o The key attributes of the self competency include the knowledge, skills, and abilities of individual to be effective in doing the following :
• - Understanding one’s own and others’ personality and attitudes. ---
• - Perceiving, appraising, and interpreting accurately oneself and others.
• - Understanding and acting on one’s own and others’ work-related motivations and emotions.
• - Assessing and establishing one’s own developmental, personal and work related goals.
• - Taking responsibility for managing oneself and career over time and through stressful circumstances.
The self competency is the most individual-focused of the seven competencies.
Its achievement creates the underlying personal attributes needed for successfully developing the other six competencies.
Chris Tseng has successfully managed to achieve a strong self competency by building up a solid career during her consecutive ten years of experience as a department team lead for Accenture.
She also did set personal goals by adding a new member to the family and saving four weeks of accrued vacation time.
The key attributes illustrated in this case are as follows :-
- She understood her personality by considering leaving the company for the sake of her baby.
- She took advantage of work-life initiative ( future leave ) to have enough time to appraise, evaluate and resolve the situation by either resume career or resignation
- When she came back to work, she observed and appreciated the emotional welcome by stating “ her colleagues welcomed her back with open arms” and “ that men recognize that once women became mother’s they do feel guilty about leaving their child and some decide not to return to work” and that can also be considered as attribute of self competency by taking responsibility of managing oneself through stressful circumstances. By applying work-life program in this situation , she could have extra hours with Nicholas through work from home program or even considering going back to school by pursuing online education in line with her career path.
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