INLS385-002 Spring 2020

SESSION 20 | ORGANIZATIONAL DIVERSITY


What do we mean when we say "Leadership and Diversity"?

What do we mean by "diversity"?

Diversity Of Thought | Vidya Spandana

For our society to move towards a more inclusive consciousness, diversity must be explored through thought and perspective, not by race or gender.

The individual in the Sakai calendar who will speak to us about this will plan to write a Sakai forum posting about the TED talk 

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Diversity means a lot of different things

from the boyd article
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

Go on to read How Diversity Makes Us Smarter by Katherine W. Phillips

Being around people who are different from us makes us more creative, more diligent and harder-working.

The individual in the Sakai calendar who will speak to us about this will plan to write a Sakai forum posting about the readings 

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You don't have to read these unless you wish to, but we might touch upon them in conversation

anatomy class, UNC-CH/
  1. 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.
  2. Catmull, E. (September 01, 2008). How Pixar Fosters Collective Creativity. Harvard Business Review, 64.
  3. 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

The individual in the Sakai calendar who will speak to us about this will plan to write a Sakai forum posting about the readings 

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things we'll talk about; ethics feeds into a discussion on diversity in organizations

or are we framing the discussion in an entirely incorrect manner?
What is our understanding of organizational diversity?

slides for session 20

The visuals will have a narration added, so plan to watch them in slide show view so you can hear the narration

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something to take away

Chan Chan

Compay Segundo live at L'Olympia in Paris, France, 1999

One of my last songs was "Chan Chan," which I wrote in 1987. I played it for the first time at a club called Cristino. It's a number that has four notes, and four chords. There's very few numbers that you can sing the whole song with four notes. I've been to Santa Clara-Las Villas province and everybody up there knows it; I've been to Santiago de Cuba y and everybody there knows it too. I go by a school and when a kid sees me, he says, "Look, it's Compay Segundo," and starts singing, "I'm going from Alto Cedro to Marcané then from Cueto, I'm going to Mayarí."

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