Leading Culturally Diverse Teams Diversity has a major impact on business and in the workplace and it cannot be ignored. A leader should make diversity a resource instead of viewing it as another type of liability. Diversity means differences and is a characteristic of everyone not just people of different races, nationalities, or genders. It also means the human differences that exist in a wide variety of categories such as race, gender, ethnicity, age, physical appearance, physical abilities
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3 Sources of Moral Obligation by Josephson Institute on February 14, 2011 A duty is an obligation to act in a certain way. When the obligation is based on moral and ethical considerations, it is a moral duty. Often we think about moral duties in terms of rules that restrain us, the “don’ts,” as in don’t lie, cheat, or steal. Such rules comprise the so-called negative dimension of moral duty because they tell us what not to do. Since ethics is concerned with the way we ought to be, however, it also
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as tribes or clans. B. Prejudice and Discrimination * Prejudice - Prejudice has to do with the inflexible and irrational attitudes and opinions held by members of one group about another. * Discrimination - Discrimination refers to behaviours directed against another group. C. Race and Ethnicity * Race - refers to groups of people who have differences and similarities in biological traits deemed by society to be socially significant. - Racism, then, is prejudice based on socially significant
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discrimination different from prejudice and stereotyping? Discrimination is when a person is harassed or treated differently, because of race, religion, sexual orientation, and gender among many other reasons. In employment circumstances discrimination is something that an employer does that hurts an employee; for example an employee being fired for reasons not related to on the job behavior, or not selecting him/her for a promotion. Discrimination is different from Prejudice and Stereotypes, because
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Mutual fairness is extremely important when creating a fun environment for a workplace, this allows for employees to have the want to arrive to work. When employees are in a happy environment it shows in their work; this will help the workplace by showing a high level of performance, in which will be recognized by customers. It is important to implement nondiscrimination policies because this will keep every level of job titles happy from management, supervisors, and lower-level employees. When
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behavior. A good example of Operant conditioning is: employees finishing projects to receive praise or promotions (Cherry, 2013). Observational learning occurs when one observes another’s behaviors, which enables one to reenact those behaviors. In the workplace observational learning is used in a few ways. For example: whenever a manager started to train an employee they used instructional videos, so that the new employees could observe the job functions they were to undertake. Next, normally the manager
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José Castro was an undocumented factory worker from Mexico, hired by Hoffman Plastic Compounds, located in California. Seven months after he was hired, Castro began participating in union activities, organizing and distributing authorization cards. After his involvement was discovered, Hoffman laid Castro off along with two other workers. Castro later sued Hoffman Plastic Compounds for violating his right to freedom of association (Sensiba and Yavrom 18). The case Hoffman Plastic Compounds, Inc.
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the act apply to hirers, workers in employments and the self-employed. To encourage a preventive approach to occupational safety and health, it also has implications for individuals who control workplaces, such as landlords or property companies who may have non-one employed but may provide the workplace itself or essential services for use by hirers and workers. The 2005 Act provides for exchanging of views to reach a decision between hirers and workers to help ensure cooperation to prevent mishaps
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4 Works Cited 11 Abstract I am going to write about diversity and integration in the workplace and how it creates room for new ideas as well as the possibility of increased conflict. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the Fire Service, where new recruits and veteran firefighters live together, eat together and place their lives on the line
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|Unreliable, exaggerated generalizations about all members of a group that do not take individual | | |differences into account. Oversimplified image or ides of a particular person or thing. | |Prejudice |Preconceived opinion not based on reason or experience. An unfavorable opinion or feeling formed | | |without any knowledge thought or reason.
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