Diversity definition
is the set of similarities or differences that make diverse a group of people from the other. This distinctiveness can be by a group of visible dimensions:
· Gender
· Race
· Ethnicity
· Age
· Disabilities
· Dress
· Religion
· Physical attributes
Invisible Dimensions:
· Skills
· Education
· Political views
· Marital or partnership status
· Work life experience
· Socio economic status
· Parental status
· Beliefs
Core Dimension:
· Personality
· Work style
· Personal truth
· Sexual orientation
Diversity Main Issues
1. Gender diversity: in order to avoid discrimination that is the main issue to gender diversity, because in some countries there is an unequal payment between women and men; depending on the work hours mostly women have a lack of job hours, due to maternity leaves, low positions for women.
2. Race diversity: there is a high level of discrimination of black people in Europe for example; it would be prohibited by legislation. This kind of discrimination is made by jokes on television, by internet, or even on the street. Also it can be felt on the income differences.
3. Age diversity: the issue is explained by the existence of mixture of four human generation (Maturity, Bloom, Gen X and Millennial) working for the same team, it means, for the same company in the same area, it means there would be a gap between them at the workplace due to they do not have the same knowledge level.
4. Religious diversity: the company members could be from different religious system, so they would have different beliefs (holiday, eastern, praying time, dress codes, so on), ways to dress and eat than others. If the partners do not know anything about it, it will have conflicts between them.
5. Employees with disabilities: in companies where there are employees with a kind of disability, the company has to have a variety of accommodations that are special equipment that make easy their commitment otherwise not feeling any discrimination.
6. Sexual orientation diversity: there can have sexual preferences, fear of managers and co workers, not feeling welcome or comfortable at the workplace.
It is quite important to get a cultural identity, because it makes you different from the other, even though, it is fairly important to understand the diversity for other, it means that people have to take into account to respect the other’s vision, being aware of the other’s ambiguity. Developing open minded skill make people more conscious about the diversity issues. Through these actions, people can develop a cultural intelligence that is followed by the ability and consciousness about diversity.
Question
¿Do you think the entry and integration of new members to the European Union are processes that promote diversity or on the contrary, strive to homogenize the European Society?
The entrance of new states to the European Union is a procedure that encourages cultural diversity between them. They belong to a macro nation that is the European Union, even though; they join it adopting new cultural codes. They implement different laws that become them as European Union ‘citizens’ still being from other culture. This integration promotes diversity to the European Union, because, they acquire a commitment in the treatment of third-country nationals, reasons like migrations and minority issues are the attention for these ‘citizens’.
‘Migrants and the members of a new minority see a danger in being stigmatized as being ‘different’, whereas persons belonging to an (old) minority group see a danger in not being recognized as being ‘different’ from the majority’(1) Who is Managing Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in the European Condominium? The Moments of Entry, Integration and Preservation.Page 719.
References:
1. Toggenburg, Gabriel N. 2005. “Who is managing ethnic and cultural diversity in the European Condominium? The moments of entry, integration and preservation”. Journal of Common Market Studies 43 (4) 717-38.
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