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Chapter 6 Lecture Notes Organizational Diversity

This document contains lecture notes on organizational diversity from a chapter 6 class. It discusses how the changing demographics in the workplace from factors like birthrates, immigration, and rising numbers of women in the workforce can present both challenges and opportunities for organizations. The notes also cover how organizational change can cause stress for older workers having to adapt to new ideas from younger employees. Additionally, the concepts of convergence versus divergence in management across cultures is addressed, noting countries differ in their individualist or collectivist cultural tendencies and effective management requires understanding these differences.

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Chapter 6 Lecture Notes Organizational Diversity

This document contains lecture notes on organizational diversity from a chapter 6 class. It discusses how the changing demographics in the workplace from factors like birthrates, immigration, and rising numbers of women in the workforce can present both challenges and opportunities for organizations. The notes also cover how organizational change can cause stress for older workers having to adapt to new ideas from younger employees. Additionally, the concepts of convergence versus divergence in management across cultures is addressed, noting countries differ in their individualist or collectivist cultural tendencies and effective management requires understanding these differences.

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2/15/2015
Monday
Chapter 6 Lecture Notes
Organizational Diversity
-demography
-changing workplace
-birthrates, immigration, gender parity (women in workforce is rising)
-challenges and opportunities
Organizational Change can be cause of stress
-older workers gets stressed with the increase of younger workers which
bring in new habits and ideas
-diversity of opinions is very important but groups must work well together
and feel that they can openly discuss their ideas
Convergence and Divergence
-convergence hypothesis: assumes principles are universal (what works in
the US should work anywhere!)
-divergence hyp: recognizes that effective management requires clear
understanding of culture differences
-collectivist culture: focuses more on group interest rather than of the
individual; look at themselves as members of a larger group; east-asian
culture
-individualist: looks at personal goals and gain; more autonomous
VIDEO
-everyone sees others in terms of cultural perspective
-how did erin meyer describe learning diffs?
-mexico the teacher is authority figure
-authentic flexibility:
-US is very task-based cultures
U.S. Tendencies
-communicating
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