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- Introduction
- Defining diversity
- Importance of diversity
- Increasing diversity (1)
- Increasing diversity (2)
- Positive impact of diversity
- Negative impact of diversity
- Benefits vs. risks of diversity
- Information resource perspective
- Social categorization and identity
- Negative consequences
- Self-fulfilling prophecy cycle
- Positive consequences
- Complex challenge
- Minimizing stereotyping biases
- Defining inclusion
- Why is inclusion important?
- What is a climate of inclusion?
- Is inclusion effective?
- Increase inclusion – How?
- Leading inclusion
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Topics Covered
- Defining diversity
- Potential impact of diversity
- Perspectives on diversity
- Information resource perspective
- Social identity perspective
- Managing diversity
- Defining inclusion
- Potential impact of inclusion
- Increasing inclusion
- Inclusive leadership
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Mitchell, R. (2017, June 29). Diversity and inclusion in organizations [Video file]. In The Business & Management Collection, Henry Stewart Talks. Retrieved October 12, 2024, from https://doi.org/10.69645/OLNC8473.Export Citation (RIS)
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0:00
Hello, my name's Rebecca Mitchell,
I'm a professor in Management at the University of Newcastle in Australia.
And today I'm going to be speaking to you about diversity,
in particular organizational diversity and inclusion.
0:17
So if we're looking at our first slide now,
you can see a definition of diversity in
organizations that refers to the profile of employees.
So those individuals employed in
the organization across all levels that typically we find
some variety between senior management for example and other levels of the organization.
I'd like us to think about diversity in a number of different ways.
I guess for most of us,
when we think of diversity,
we think of background diversity or belonging in a particular category.
So if we have a look at the diagram on this slide,
we can see things like age or maybe ethnicity,
national background, and there are also job related categories.
I guess the most obvious one is profession.
And some of those are immutable,
so usually we can't influence our age for example.
Some of them like profession are open to our influence and some of them are
visible so it might be obvious to some people what your gender is,
perhaps, it could be less obvious what your profession is.
Some of those things that we previously thought were quite
important, whether something was visible or
invisible, have been shown not to be as important because
characteristics become known quite early in organizational contact.
For example, if you're a member of
a multidisciplinary team which is often where we experience diversity,
somebody's profession can become known before the start of any meetings,
simply because that's the reason they're part of the team.
So thinking about background diversity,
we look at the next level which is experiential diversity.
So the idea that if you're from a particular profession,
you have a different education,
you have a different experience to people from other professions.
We could also say perhaps, that if you're from a particular country you might have
a different educational experience or a different experience
in terms of your work related life than somebody from another country.
So that experiential diversity stems from background diversity.
But what I think is very important for us to consider is cognitive or thought diversity
which emerges from both this background diversity and experiential diversity.
And that's differences in the way we think about things,
not just our knowledge but our values,
our perspectives, our approaches to things.
So there are three different types of diversity we can think about
when we think about diversity in organizations.
One that we often think about is the background or
category diversity, but I'd encourage you to think about differences in
experience and ultimately differences in cognition or
thoughts as particularly important
for the organization and we're going to discuss that later.