Problem
The multitude of individual differences and similarities that exist among people
What is Diversity?
An individual’s set of beliefs about the characteristics or attributes of a group
What is a stereotype?
An intervention aimed at giving management a chance to correct an imbalance, injustice, mistake, or outright discrimination that has occurred in the past
What is affirmative action?
Poor career planning, inaccurate stereotypes, hostile work environment, resistance to change etc.
What are barriers to successful diversity programs?
Represents any thoughts or beliefs that are automatically activated from memory without our conscious awareness
What is implicit cognition?
Enables people to perform to their maximum potential: education component, enforcement component, exposure component
What is managing diversity?
Setting quotas to ensure that a certain number of people from a specific demographic are able to work in a specific industry or company which can lead to reverse discrimination
What are diversity goals?
This reflects our tendency to attribute a person's behavior to his or her personal characteristics rather than situation factors
What is fundamental attribution bias?
Employees and manager alike need to be able to accept differences and agree that everything should be open to change
What is mutual adaptation?
A disconnect between what types of jobs are needed in the market, and what types of jobs young people think are in demand
What is the "information gap"?
A sub-component of an organization’s overall climate, defined as the employees' aggregate perceptions about the diversity-related formal structure characteristics and informal values
What is diversity climate?
Interviewers ask the same questions to all applicants and treat applicants equally
What is a structured interview?
An invisible but absolute barrier that prevents people of a specific gender, race, or ethnicity from reaching higher level positions in the corporate world
What is the glass ceiling?
Reflects the extent to which people feel free to express their ideas and beliefs without fear of negative consequences
What is psychological safety?
Ranked in the top 50 undergraduate professors
Who is Ozias Moore?