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Case Study – Why Diversity, Why Now? (Employees)
This case study is designed to help participants discover that diversity encompasses more than what they may realize on both a personal and professional level. Read through this case study and answer the questions at the end.
Case Study – Why Diversity, Why Now? (Managers)
This case study is designed to help managers discover that diversity encompasses more than what they may realize on both a personal and professional level.
The Locker Room
Dealing with questions during a coworker's gender reassignment process
The Wedding
An openly gay coworker sharing his/her wedding plans at the office
Words
Stereotyping / Why words matter in the workplace
Article: Generations Apart
A fun and interesting article about younger employees - from the perspective of a Baby Boomer. Honest thoughts and interesting stereotypes are discussed. Will some generation-based attributes still annoy us? Sure they will. Can we work through those problems? We can if we choose to do so.
Diversity Version 3.0 - Organizational Development and Continuous Education
This perspective paper discusses the concept that diversity in the workplace has steadily evolved over the last couple decades. Originally it focused primarily on race, but later broadened to include the promotion of women, people with disabilities and the LGBT community. Now, the definition of diversity is expanding further to include aspects such as physical characteristics, background, family status, military service, personality and work style. Today, in essence, diversity is all of the ways that we are similar and different to one another.
Key Concept: The Competitive Advantage of Diversity & Inclusion
There are many well-known advantages of having a diverse and inclusive workplace - the most common advantages are discussed in this easy-to-read article.
Key Concept: Unconscious Bias Defined
The term "bias" may be used to describe both positive and negative mindsets towards individuals and groups. Many references to bias refer to the persistent, harmful and unequal treatment of someone based solely on some characteristic they possess or their apparent membership in or identification with a particular group.
Overcoming Diversity Fatigue: Key Causes and Strategies for Addressing It
This whitepaper explores key causes for diversity fatigue and it outlines steps that organizations can undertake to address the fatigue and to jump start their diversity programs with renewed energy and focus.
Transgender Employment Policy (Sample)
This sample transgender employment policy document gives you a jump start in creating a comprehensive respectful and inclusive policy. Note: This is an example and needs to be customized per your organizational policies.
What is a Generation?
Article Summary: A “generation” is defined as a group of people born and living about the same time. Within each generation, its members share values, behaviors and work ethics that have been shaped by the economic, social and political climates in which they come of age.
Being F.A.I.R.™ Understanding The Power of Cultural Competence
An impactful diversity awareness program designed to help employees understand what diversity really is and when it matters most in the workplace. This program introduces the F.A.I.R.™ Approach as a practical way to improve an organization’s cultural competency. The approach can be used as a tool to build more positive, productive relationships at work that will help employees make better decisions that impact the overall productivity of the organization.
Discussion Card: Unconscious Bias
A colorful and right-to-the-point reminder card that provides a simple model (H.I.D.D.E.N.) for understanding unconscious bias as well as providing questions to address hidden bias in the workplace. These cards can be printed and distributed for a quick reminder or conversation starter.
Diversity 101™ Don't Know What You Got
Biases are real and we all have ‘em. Our biases describe both positive and negative mindsets towards individuals and groups. There a lot to such a little word. Bias refers to the persistent, harmful and unequal treatment of someone based solely on some characteristic they possess or group they belong to.
M.E.E.T.: Breaking New Ground.™ Respect and Inclusion in the Workplace
Based on the best-selling M.E.E.T. on Common Ground™, this program will provide your employees with the tools they need to understand and manage their behavior as it relates to others in the workplace. This powerful program uses highly relevant and realistic video scenarios involving common situations, such as inappropriate expressions and jokes, unconscious biases and gossip.
Another Look: Defining Respect in Healthcare™
Providing quality healthcare also includes recognizing that employees and others in the work environment have diverse backgrounds and a desire for respect and understanding as well.
Five Completely Sane People
It's sometimes tough bringing a group of diverse and free-thinking individuals together on a team - and expect them to immediately gel. This video demonstrates the work needed to get the best from a multi-generational team. Includes varying views of appropriate business etiquette.
I'm Color Blind (Original Version)
This vignette presents the concept of feedback within a diversity context. Also covered is the necessity to recognize hidden/unconscious bias.
Me Jing Or Ma Jong? Avoiding Stereotypes
A focus on the concept of assistance within a diversity context and the importance of avoiding stereotypes (and bias - conscious or unconscious) in the workplace.