Managing Diversity
A training program for executive and staff level employees: The development of open communicative skills. Executive and staff level employees should develop good communicative skills in order to create a good atmosphere. Working on the development of communicative skills, they will be able to share their feelings and emotions and, as a result, they will be able to maintain good partnership relationships. Patrick & Kumar (2012) noticed that the catalyst of diversity consciousness is the necessity to develop communicative skills, because they help employees to use the required skills appropriately and improve the quality of policies, products, and services of the company.
Executive and staff level employees have been working on the development of communicative skills and creation of a positive atmosphere at the workplace. As a result, they have managed to solve the problem of ageism, discrimination based on age peculiarities. There is a stereotype that older people are more experienced than younger ones. However, all executive and staff level employees managed to solve the problem of ageism and thus, they treat each other equally regardless of their age peculiarities. Organization of official meetings. Executive and staff level employees can discuss different strategies that will help to enhance diversity consciousness. They have already developed effective strategies that helped to solve the problems of racial discrimination and the problem of gender discrimination.
As a result, executive and staff level employees treat the representatives of different races with honor and respect. All employees are treated equally regardless of gender peculiarities. All employees are paid equally for the same work regardless of their gender peculiarities. Conferences. During conferences, executive and staff level employees have an opportunity to exchange professional knowledge and experience. Cooperative work. Cooperating with each other, executive and staff level employees have an opportunity to demonstrate respect to each other, exchange cultural knowledge and experience, and give suggestions to improve the desired results. Employees can solve educational discrimination during cooperative work. More professional workers can give certain recommendations to less experienced employees and, as a result, they will achieve success and enhance diversity consciousness. A training program for the lower managerial levels and the workers Meetings in an informal atmosphere.
Good (2005) noticed that “there is a need for understanding, tolerance, and acceptance of cultural differences related to language, customs, culture, religion, and values” (p. 70). Meeting in an informal atmosphere will help lower managerial levels and the workers to understand cultural and national peculiarities of each other better. As a result, they will accept the positions of each other. They will learn to understand each other. They will respect the values and visions of each other. Finally, they will learn to accept other people. Discussions. Organized discussions will provide lower managerial levels and the workers with the opportunity to discuss the peculiarities of national origin of each other.
As a result, colleagues will learn to respect national and ethnical peculiarities of each other. Short talks during breaks. Talking to each other during breaks will help employees exchange their academic …
