Reflective Summary

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Age, race, gender, ethnicity, religious, and sexual orientation are examples of surface-level diversity. Surface-level diversity is the differences in easily apparent characteristics. Deep-level diversity is the difference in values, personality, and work preference. The only way to determine deep level diversity is by getting to know that person better. With the varying work, environment management must adapt to policies and strategies that appeal to their employees. It is in a company’s best interest to become accustomed to policies and strategies to appeal to different kind of employees. Companies have started to realize that it is to their advantage that they hire a more diverse group of people. Companies have started to seek out colleges and universities to recruit employees. Companies have also started to develop relationships with organizations like the National Association of Black Accountants. These are some ways that companies make sure they are hiring a diverse group of individuals. Once the employees are hired it is the responsibility of management to ensure that each employee believes that he or she feels welcome at work and at off-site gatherings. We also discussed in class that managers have the sole responsibility to ensure that work teams are diverse in an organization. They must create a recruiting strategy that’s online with the organizations goals for diversity. If diversity is not present in their organization they must start out by recreating their strategy for recruiting. Steps like attending functions with other companies that support groups with diverse environments. Get the organization to register with local job career offices. Stay in contact with academic schools and update them when the organization has job slots available to attract the upcoming graduating students. They can also scan employment posting sites which reaches job

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