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Understanding Diversity

The document discusses diversity and its dimensions. It defines diversity as respecting and appreciating differences between individuals. There are visible differences like physical appearance and invisible ones like beliefs. It also discusses Loden's diversity wheel model which categorizes diversity into primary dimensions like gender and secondary dimensions like occupation. Another dimension discussed is ability and disability, defining them and arguing people with disabilities should be accepted and accommodated. The document ends by noting challenges of discrimination still exist despite policies promoting diversity.

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Understanding Diversity

The document discusses diversity and its dimensions. It defines diversity as respecting and appreciating differences between individuals. There are visible differences like physical appearance and invisible ones like beliefs. It also discusses Loden's diversity wheel model which categorizes diversity into primary dimensions like gender and secondary dimensions like occupation. Another dimension discussed is ability and disability, defining them and arguing people with disabilities should be accepted and accommodated. The document ends by noting challenges of discrimination still exist despite policies promoting diversity.

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UNDERSTANDING DIVERSITY

I. DEFINITION
Diversity is more than just tolerating differences. It is
respecting, appreciating, and understanding the varying
characteristics of individuals.
There are marked differences that are visible. these are
physical characteristics like the color os skin, color of hair,
shape of eyes, nose, height, weight, gender, age, socio-
economic class, occupation, and many others.
I. DEFINITION
There are other differences brought about by one’s beliefs,
mind-set, values, sexual identity, intellegence, personality,
and others that are not easily evident or are invisible.
Visible and Invisible characteristics of diversity are not
necessarily connected because there are times when a
visible characteristics like the color will easily be related
to a disposition or trait.
I. DEFINITION
Diversity is from the Latin word divertere, which means to
turn away, separate, oppose.
Presently, people recognize and consider the differences of
each person as important. We all live in a global village
that brings about changing demographics both in the work
force and education.
II. LODEN’S DIVERSITY WHEEL
In 1990, Marilyn Loden, an American Writer, and Judy Rosener,
a professor at the graduate school in the University of California,
Irvine developed a framework to respond to flourishing
divergence in America’s labor force.
The Wheel consists of primary or core and secondary dimensions
of diversity. The categories put forward the effects of these
differences on a person’s beliefs, expectations, and life
experience. The dimensions are the components that comprise the
whole person.
II. LODEN’S DIVERSITY WHEEL
Loden and Rosener’s Diversity Wheel
The primary or core The secondary
dimensions are in the dimensions are in the
inner circle. These are outer circle. These
the stronger ones. characteristics are
These are the also part of our social
charcteristics we were identity, but they can
born with established change or be
by significant discarded as our life
experiences we had or experiences impact
people we interacted us.
with.
II. LODEN’S DIVERSITY WHEEL
Loden presents four principles for managing our own behavior in a global
context and interacting successfully with people globally.
1. Respect - treating others the way they wish to be treated.
2. Inclusion - making certain everyone on the team is truly a part of the
team’s decision-making process.
3. Cooperation - actively helping others succeed rather than competing or
attempting to one-up someone.
4. Responsibility - managing personal behavior to maintain a diversity-
positive environment and questioning inappropriate behavior when it occurs.
III. ABILITY (AND DISABILITY) AS A DIMENSION OF
DIVERSITY
Another dimension of diversity that is significant is the
dimension of ability and disability.
Acording to the Collins English Dictionary Ability refers to the
possession of the qualities required to do something; necessary
skill or competence, or power.
Disability, on the other hand, is defined by the World Health
Organization (WHO) as the umbrella term for impairments,
activity limitations, and participatin restrictions, referring to the
negative aspects of the interaction between an individual and that
indiviudal’s contextual factors.
III. ABILITY (AND DISABILITY) AS A DIMENSION OF
DIVERSITY
A person’s disability makes him/her a unique individual
who is, at times, shunned from places and actvities.
• They have to be acknowledged as part of the spectrum
of diversity,
• They have to be recognized as human beings who should
not be discriminated against, but rather understood,
accepted, and tolerated.
• they have to be accorded their rights.
III. ABILITY (AND DISABILITY) AS A
DIMENSION OF DIVERSITY
• Disabilities have to be seen as a natural part of life and a
natural part of diversity.
• People with disabilities have to be perceived and
accepted as people with distinct abilities
• They have to identify themselves as having disabilities
so that the world can accept them and create avenues for
them to live in.
IV. THE DILEMMA OF DIVERSITY

In this age if fast paced development where


diversity plays a unique role, there are still
challenges that confront a lot of people who have
been identified as “different.” Discrimination
issues around race, gender, age, and intellect still
abound inspite of charters, laws, and and policies
that uphold diversity.

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