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Diversity & Discrimination

Rachel Grotto, Gabriela DeLaGarza, Amanda Muransky & Marius Spurfeld

in the workplace

Examples of Diversity Training

Video Exercises

Experiential Exercises

Cultural Immersion

Training Consultants

Online Seminars

Affinity Groups

  • Also called networking groups
  • Provides forums and resources to gather socially and share ideas
  • Organize events and work with management to help incorporate diversity

Walmart

“Supplier Diversity Program”

  • Top 100 outside firms graded on price, performance, and diversity
  • Mandate started in 2005 by Walmart General Counsel Tom Mars
  • 3 firms fired for failing to show progress with diversity

Diversity Training

Examples:

-Culture

-Gender

-Ethnicity

-Religion

-Physical Disabilities

How To Prevent Discrimination

Types of Discrimination

Works Cited

  • Become familiar with all applicable anti-discrimination laws

  • Implement a comprehensive anti-discrimination policy

  • Institute mandatory antidiscrimination

training programs

Types of Discrimination

Training designed to change employee attitudes about diversity and/or develop skills needed to work with a diverse workforce.

Allows all employees to contribute to organizational goals and experience personal growth.

Train employees to appreciate cultural differences.

-Age

-Disability

-Equal Pay/Compensation

-Genetic Information

-Harassment

-National Origin

-Pregnancy

-Race/color

-Religion

-Sex

Discrimination in the Media

Arnold, Michael“How To Prevent Discrimination In The Workplace” XPertHR

Burns, Crosby, Sophia Kerby, and Kimberly Barton. "The State of Diversity in Today's Workforce." Name. N.p., July 2012. Web. 19 Nov. 2014.

“Discrimination by Type” U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Web. 20 Nov. 2014

Fleming, John. "Walmart Presses Suppliers to Enhance Diversity." The Wall Street Journal (2007): 1.

Forsythe, Jason. "Affinity and Networking Groups." The New York Times (2004): 1.

Greenberg, Josh. "Diversity in the Workplace: Benefits, Challenges and Solutions." Diversity in the Workplace: Benefits, Challenges and Solutions. N.p., n.d. Web. 19 Nov. 2014.

Hollenbeck, Gerhart, Noe, and Wright. Fundamentals of Human Resource Management, Fifth Edition. McGraw-Hill/Irwin 2014. Book, pages 31-32. November 2014

Hollenbeck, Gerhart, Noe, and Wright. Fundamentals of Human Resource Management, Fifth Edition. McGraw-Hill/Irwin 2014. Book, pages 223,473. November 2014

Human Rights Campaign. Working for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Equal Rights. Web. 20 Nov. 2014

Illinois Department of Human Rights. http://www2.illinois.gov/dhr/Pages/default.aspx. Web 20 Nov. 2014

Kerby, Sophia, and Crosby Burns. "The Top 10 Economic Facts of Diversity in the Workplace." Name. N.p., June 2012. Web. 17 Nov. 2014.

Mayhew, Ruth. "Why Is Diversity in the Workplace Important to Employees?" Small Business. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Nov. 2014

"Why Diversity Matters." Human Resources at UC Berkeley |. N.p., n.d. Web. 19 Nov. 2014.

Google images, Google.com. Online, 2014.

Ford Motor Corporation

Challenges in Diversity

How to Prevent Discrimination

  • Formed an executive council on diversity in 1999
  • Works closely with affinity groups called Employee Resource Groups
  • Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)
  • Be prepared to investigate complaints of discrimination

  • Analyze business decisions for unintentional discrimination

Benefits of Diversity

  • Communication

-Ineffective communication can lead to confusion, lack of teamwork, and low morale.

  • Resistance to change

-“we’ve always done it this way”

mentality silences new ideas and inhibits progress.

What is Discrimination?

-10 total

-Represents employees who share common cultures, ethnicity, and perspectives

-Responsible for improving employee development within the company

Market to consumers

More creative and innovative workforce

More qualified workforce

Variety of Viewpoints

  • Consideration based on class or category rather than individual merit

  • The unjust treatment of categories of people such as race, age or sex

Importance of Diversity

Discrimination Resources

  • Mutual Respect
  • Business Reputation
  • Job Promotion
  • Increased Exposure

Diversity at a Glance

Discrimination

Conclusion

-U.S. Equal Employment Commission

-Human Rights Campaign

-Illinois Department of Human Rights (IDHR)

  • 64% non - Hispanic white, 16% Hispanic, 12% African-American, 5% Asian, and 3% do not identify with these categories.
  • Currently women make up 47% of the workforce
  • Fortune 500 CEOs: 94,6% men, 3.6% women, and 4.2% people of color
  • Age Distribution: 16 to 24 - 14%, 25 to 54 - 67%, and 55 + - 19%

What is Diversity?

  • Diversity is human qualities that are different from our own and those of groups where we belong.

  • It includes, but not limited to: age, ethnicity, gender, race, sexual orientation, physical abilities, income, and religious beliefs

The Global Environment

  • More companies are entering the international market:

-Exporting products

-Building facilities in other countries

-Entering into alliances with foreign companies

-Foreign companies basing operations in the U.S.

-Reach a vast amount of new customers

Diversity

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