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WORKPLACE DIVERSITY & THE NEED TO MANAGE IT - Coggle Diagram
WORKPLACE DIVERSITY & THE NEED TO
MANAGE IT
Social dilemmas of workplace diversity
Individual
Success of diversity initiatives -employees embrace/resist
Subgroup->restricting the movement of information
Exclusion->subgroup competition
Organisational
Focus short-term cost
Barriers-select highly talented candidate (inaccurate views)
Managerial
Consequence of dilemma of individual participation
Manager & individuals：similar
Diversity
Workplace diversity
Differences (in age, gender, race, ethnicity, etc) among people at work.
AUSTRALIA
most of these fall in the working age category
These workers are assets to the economy
28% of population born overseas
Why should we manage diversity?
Legal
Affirmative action- legally required to improve women's experience in work.
4 core standards of ILO- eliminating descrimination
Beneficial for industry
promotes groups that are actually functional (Schneider&Northcraft, 1999)
allows work in teams to be carried out smoothly, effeciently
Moral
Promoting equal opportunities
taking social accountability
The glass ceiling
Eastern European and Scandinavian nations lead in abolishing the glass ceiling
A phenomenon that limits the advancements of women and other minority groups to senior managerial positions in organisations
Overcoming the glass ceiling:
Introducing parental paid leave
Introducing gender quotas for company boards
Blend of women and men in senior roles
changing societal norms around the role of women
OVERCOMING SOCIAL DILEMMAS
management problem
overcoming individual &
managerial participation
Combined with interest
realising self interest can be facilitated
goals
cooperation
encourages and
facilitates communication
public policy problem
overcoming organisational
participation
requires firms to develop diversity initiatives
effective’ diversity
Avoiding the creation of legislation
Educational curricula at primary/secondary level
Social dilemmas
Tragedy of the common
Neglect benefit for society-pursuit personal gain
Temporal dilemmas
Long and short term interest
Collective dilemmas
Fail to cooperate -self-interest
Traps
Positive incentive to ignore
Fences
Disincentive to promote
Social identify
Functional di