Understanding and Managing Diversity
While culture is a set of social lessons of behaviors that we learn over time, diversity is defined as differences in culture as well as nationality, ethnicity, religion, gender, or generation
The Diversity Wheel (see next slide) provides a tool to better understand individual differences through four different dimensions that represent an individual.
It can remind us that even though some people may appear to look like us, they may represent a different culture even within our own country or region
We can then begin to understand how each dimension of the Diversity Wheel influences attitudes, motivations, and behaviors, as well as social and business customs
We can then not only see how people are different, but also how we might be similar