I - Managing Workplace Diversity Chapter Eleven: Affirmative Action
1. End of Chapter Questions:
1. What is Affirmative Action?
2. Who has been Affirmative Action's largest beneficiary? Why do you think this group over others has benefitted more by affirmative action?
3. What does the quotas have to do with Affirmative Action?
4. What are two myths and corresponding facts that address commonly held beliefs about affiramative action?
5. What is the worst stage in the continuum of competence, why? What is the best stage, why?
2. Internet Exercise:
In this exercise, you well be required to take the project implicit association test. Project Implicit Is a non-profit organization and international collaborative network of researchers investigating implicit social cognition - thoughts and feelings outside of conscious awareness and control. Project Implicit is the product of a team of scientists whose research produced new ways of understanding attitudes, stereotypes and other hidden biases that Influence perception, judgment, and action.
Project Implicit translates that academic research into practical applications for addressing diversity, Improving decision-making, and increasing the likelihood that practices are aligned with personal and organizational values.
Project Implicit was founded in 1998 by three scientists - Tony Greenwald (University Of Washington), Mahzarin Banaji (Harvard University), and Brian Nosek (University of Virginia).
Go to https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/selectatest.html or go to Google and type: project implicit select a test. Now take the race, age and any sex implicit test by clicking on the test. Print or copy and paste your results.
Now share your test results. Explain how having unknown biases can perpetuate discrimination in the workplace and why this is an argument in support of affirmative action.
3. It is not important that you support or believe in affirmative action, but you may one day work for an organization that does and you should see why some still support affirmative action today. Please go to:
https://www.aclu.org/files/images/asset_upload_file670_37287.pdf and state
1. Why corporations support affirmative action and
2. Why America's top universities support affirmative action.
II - Managing Workplace Diversity Chapter Twelve: Managing Diversity Strategies
1. End of Chapter Questions: 1, 2, 3, 6, 7 & 8
1. How does Managing Diversity as a tool to help with workplace equality differ from Affirmative Action?
2. Should companies have a zero tolerance policy when it comes to offensive workplace terminology and symbol usage like nooses (references to slavery) and swastikas (infamous Nazi symbol)?
3. Under what corporate conditions would a Mentorship Program Benefit the organization?
4. What are the benefits to providing diversity training in the workplace (according to the text)?
5. Why would a company conduct a cultural audit and have a diversity council?
6. Under the section, "Politically Correct & Incorrect Workplace Terminology" chooses five words that you heard used or used yourself but that you now known are politically incorrect.
2. End of Chapter Exercise:
Part A: What is your opinion?
We have talked about cultural competency in the workplace as the goal for workplace diversity. As a reminder cultural competence is defined as a set of congruent behaviors, attitudes, and policies that come together in a system, agency, or among professionals and enables that system, agency, or those professionals to work effectively in cross-cultural situations.
Read or listen to the following article below and explain whether or not you feel what is being done lends itself to cultural competency in that state, if you agree state why and if you don't agree state why:
a. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2015/07/09/south-carolina-house-confederate-flag/29901255/
b. or go to: www.google.com and type south caroling takes down the confederate flag
Part B: Take the Posttest
Directions: Answer questions 1-13 utilizing your "best" guess. Now compare your answers to the Pretest you took in chapter one. State what answers changed and why.
3. Go to: https://chronus.com/how-to-use-mentoring-in-your-workplace and summarize the benefits of the five forms of mentoring and how each could can be utilized for a diverse workforce.