Although both these young men graduated from an Ivy League school with a degree, they are still seen based on wealthy. Jack comes from money where Mike is drowning in student loan debts which clearly shows the control money and wealth have on “ruling class”. After watching this documentary
Mr. Gates is a terrible because of where he came from. He was from an upper middle class family his father was a lawyer, his mother served on the board of directors for First Interstate Bancsystem, and his grandfather was a national bank president. Now from knowing all of that about his life, how many of college students can say they have a great heritage to fall back on like Bill Gates? Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, was a prodigy as a child who excelled in every aspect of his secondary education but it was not until He had started his second at Harvard developed the idea for Facebook. First generations college students, specifically those of non-European heritage, do not have such enormous shoulders to stand on.
A company that has a diverse workplace creates learning and involving people with different backgrounds, opinions or ideas to work together to get a main goal completed. What impact does diversity have on a company? Diversity that is well accepted in the company will succeed. If the company has a poor relationship with the employees and doesn't look out for the well being of its workers, the company will not succeed. Employees should feel welcomed and valued within the company.
This simply means that because it has a symbolic meaning, people are no long sure what the actual definition of diversity is. In today’s business world, diversity means that its business culture is multiracial, multicultural, and multiethnic. This word also comes preloaded with an individual’s own perception and biases. The author also goes on to discuss how diversity is over generalized and used to refer to workforce demographics and that it is time to look at diversity in a new light. I work for ABC Company (ABC), a very large corporation that takes diversity very seriously.
Multicultural Diversity in the Workplace Though somewhat unpretentious by definition, multiculturalism simply refers to an array in a variety of dissimilarities between people in any organization that not only affects how people see themselves but also how they perceive others. Such discernments of other people affect day-to-day interactions and the ability of a wide assortment of employees to function efficiently as an organization; therefore, human resource specialists need to be skillfully trained to deal with issues, such as reverence, adaptableness, and transformation, otherwise communication, and teamwork will be hindered. Furthermore, incorporate race, gender, ethnicity, age, persona, cognitive style, tenure, organizational function, education, upbringing and suddenly the task of promoting effective communication and teamwork among employees in a work center becomes a monumental task for management. Need For Multicultural Training Diverse and multicultural work centers will surge significantly in the approaching years, therefore; a multicultural and diversity-based training regimen must be established for employees ranging from management to laborers. Worldwide Telecommunications Inc. management must identify the immediate need for action and willingly commit to the use of any necessary means of managing the influx of diversity in the workplace.
Evaluating Technology Integration September 23, 2013 Evaluating Technology Integration Technology is difficult to define like art or politics yet one way to assess technology is information and human understanding used to produce solution to practical problems (Hamel & Prahalad, 1993; Olsen et al., 2009; University of Phoenix, 2013). Technology has the capacity to translate the skill of a practitioner into something that could not exist without it, expanding on the realm of plausible intent (Olsen et al., 2009). There have been paradigm shifts regarding the impact of technology in the workplace as part of organizational structure, culture, behavior, strategy, etc (Heintze & Bretschneider, 2000; Lee, Chun Hung & Chadha, 1995; Peyman et al., 2011; Radovanovic & Savic, 2013). These paradigm shifts are caused by both internal and external factors that organizations must address as well as evolution of technology itself. Management theories, such as sociotechnical systems are a result of what is needed to improve and enhance the effect of technology in the workplace with respect to employees, employers, and consumers (Wolf, Finnie & Gibson, 2008).
Cultural diversity is especially common in today’s business environment. What communication strategies would you implement as manager to take advantage of this? Culture is behavior and beliefs characteristic of a particular social, ethnic or age group, hence cultural diversity speaks to multiply behavior and beliefs. Culture is multiply layered. The first layer of the Organisation speaks to issues such as * Union Affiliation, * Management status, * Staff seniority The Second layer deals with * Geographic location * Work experience of employees * Religious background of the workers The third layers captures * Age * Gender * Ethnicity * Sexual Orientation Each person brings a different flavor to the Organisation and if managed properly can be beneficial to the Organisation.
The Necessity of Accommodating Workforce Diversity Abstract Accommodating workforce diversity can no longer be seen as a luxury. Because of this companies must now balance different types of diversities in order to keep employees happy and the company functioning. Age is not the only diversity within the workplace, but now cultural differences such as race, religion and personal beliefs also play a bigger part. For many companies, accommodating workforce diversity is a task that needs to be carried out through all levels of the company in order to be successful. With globalization becoming ever present within most companies, diversity can no longer be considered a luxury.
Diversity in the workplace allows differences to shine. Apart from the benefits that differences of background and lifestyle bring to the workplace, diversity is also a legal issue * Diversity is also important for a company to attract top talent. If you Google the name of a company with the word diversity, you can find out a lot about company values and their commitment to reaching out to diverse job candidates. * 1. More ideas.
Diversity may affect organizations positively like in problem solving and creativity or can affect negatively in terms of not cooperating with each other. But it is believed that if organizations properly manage HR & find the right mix of diversified workforce can enhance employee & organizational performance Although some studies reported that performance can be affected positively by age while others show neither significant nor positive effects but increasing age diversity can result in decreasing commitment and increasing age discrimination perception (Anantha & Arokiasamy, 2013). Uschi & Stephan, (2013) explains in their research “positive effects of ageing and Age-Diversity in Innovative Companies –Large Scale Evidence on Company Productivity” that moderators may be differ in different studies and on the basis of those differences these results are different, task requirement is one of the important moderator, age diversity has a positive effect on organizational productivity and the number of tasks performed in a company shows the direction of these