organizational diversity
What do we mean by "diversity"?
Diversity Of Thought | Vidya Spandana
But go on to read How Diversity Makes Us Smarter by Katherine W. Phillips
Diversity means a lot of different things
The US can only function as a healthy democracy if we find a way to diversify our social connections, if we find a way to weave together a strong social fabric that bridges ties across difference. Right now, we are moving in the opposite direction with serious consequences.
Two contemporary trend lines can help us understand this.
Self-segregation: how a personalized world is dividing Americans | danah boyd
You don't have to read these unless you wish to, but we might touch upon them in conversation
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Williams, K. Y., & O'Reilly, I. I. I. C. A. (January 01, 1998).
Demography and diversity in organizations: a review of 40 years of research.
Research in Organizational Behavior, 20, 77.
Don't necessarily read it all, but glance over it to get a sense for how it looked from the middle to the end of the previous century. - Catmull, E. (September 01, 2008). How Pixar Fosters Collective Creativity. Harvard Business Review, 64.
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And then for a slightly newer, and different, take on the topic of organizational diversity, read
DIVERSITY: Teams Solve Problems Faster When They’re More Cognitively Diverse
By Alison Reynolds and David Lewis in Harvard Business Review, 30 March 2017
things we'll talk about
- ethics feeds into a discussion on diversity in organizations
- in America, has the push for cultural, religious, ethnic, and gender diversity affected the way organizations recruit and hire new members?
- is it an organization's responsibility to ensure that it is diverse?
- how can organizations balance the need to recruit the best possible members with the need to recruit diverse members? or is it a false choice?
- how can organizations prevent biases from influencing recruiting decisions?
or are we framing the discussion in an entirely incorrect manner?
What is our understanding of organizational diversity?
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