Further Details
The term "diversity" has no fixed definition upon which
people in general and including sociologists can agree.
Since there is no respected definition of diversity, and
no one authoritative body of research-based
knowledge, self-proclaimed diversity specialists are
free to assert nearly anything the audience or in the
case of training, the customer, will tolerate.
Diversity trainers often do not look at the social
consequences of diversity or if they do, they treat it as
a by-product of their primary goal to enable the
company to function in a mixed and international
economy.
So what does this mean to the Company when they
have received the training? In short it means that whilst
they can boast that they have a ‘Diversity Policy’ and
have received training on its content, they have not
looked at the deeper problems of the financial and
credibility problems caused by not improving employee
retention and increasing consumer confidence.
Diversity issues change over time, depending on media
and political issues that are historic at that time. In
modern Society, a company that has a workforce and
Customer base constitution that matches the
demographics of the society it serves, is better
equipped to prosper in that marketplace than a
company whose appearance is different from its
surrounding civilization. This will even include the fact
that if a company is diverse in makeup, but all the
decision makers are of one primary group, diversity
does not add much value. How well a company utilizes
its diversity, is often referred to as ‘inclusion’.
Inclusion is based on the two levels of Diversity. The
superficial level is the process of employing people
from different genders, ethnicities and nationalities. But
critics of superficial Diversity argue that it is just a way
of forcing people to tolerate or support people and
practices with which they might not otherwise
voluntarily associate thus resulting in a breakdown of
social cohesion by separating a group into clear
subgroups. This is illustrated in George Orwell’s book
Nineteen Eighty Four where the Government attempts
to control not only the speech and actions, but also the
thoughts of its subjects.
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circa £1500 up to 3 days per group |
