Assignment:
Select an activity that puts yourself outside of your normal environment. If you have access to a wheelchair, for example, go out in the wheelchair to a public setting such as a shopping mall or restaurant.
Describe the activity they chose and why?
· What type of place did you choose to experience and why?
· What did you observe?
· What did you find surprising or unexpected?
· Did you feel comfortable or uncomfortable? Why?
· Did this experience change your views about the people whom you observed? If so, how?
· What did you learn from this experience?
· How could your workplace benefit because you had this type of an experience?
· Why do you feel that employers would seek and value employees with this diverse experience?
· Identify at least two reasons why organizations benefit from having a diversity-conscious culture.
· Prior to this experience did you have a stereotype of the people you observed in this activity?
1050 words.