Question

5. Diversity principles You are attending a training session on the principles that will help you do better job of managing a new company-wide diversity program. You are going through an exercise in which you are given two statements and asked to pick the one that effectively illustrates one of these principles. Here is one set of statements: Statement 1 Statement 2 You will be better able to get people to work together if A successful diversity program provides preferential you recognize surface-level diversity, but not to the extent treatment based on surface-level diversity, finally providing adequate recognition for a person's age, sex, of providing preferential treatment based on a person's and/or race or ethnicity age, sex, or race/ethnicity. You should choose Statement 1 as the more appropriate strategy for managing diversity, since is an example of giving preferential treatment to group differences You were unable to attend all of the training, but your coworker has offered fill you in on the details that you missed. Identify which of the following statements your coworker is likely to indicate as diversity principles discussed during your absence. Check all that apply. In order to promote social integration, you should create activities during which employees are working toward a com mon goal. Individual differences in productivity and performance, not group membership, should be the basis for training, development, mentoring, and promotion. Remember to continue to adhere to all federal and state laws even when implementing a diversity program.

Answer 1

Here, I should use statement 1 as if we can recognize surface level diversity, so we will get people to work together, however, we will give people any preferential treatment based on a person’s sex, age and race, Ethnicity, so statement 1 is appropriate strategy for managing diversity, again here, we are not giving preferential treatment to any people based on discrimination factors like race, sex,

Here, correct answers are --- In order to promote social integration, you should create activities during which employees are working toward a common goal,

As, Diversity should promote better social integration and here Employees are working together irrespective of their race, religion, cast, sex, and all such employees are working toward a common goal as defined by management of company,

----Remember to continue to adhere to all federal and state laws even when implementing a diversity program,

Every organization should promote diversity within their company and they should adhere to federal and state laws as required,

Diversity should not account individual difference, instead it will create group and group membership, thus, statement 2 is NOT True,