Unit Eleven: Diversity Matters

Part One: Assessment Activities

1. Self-Assessment: Women at Work, Lussier page 245

Part Two: Email Application Activities

(Individual assignment)  Send me a memo with the results of Skill Builder 2:Diversity Training (Lussier page 257).

(Group assignment)  Using where you work or have worked, discuss with each group member your company's position on the diversity continuum which we developed in class.  Explain what you think will be the future of diversity where you work.  Put your responses into a single group memo.

Part Three: Textbook Assignment

Read pages 96-103 and 242-247 in Lussier.

Part Four: Unit Outline with Reading Assignments

I. Defining diversity

II. Approaches to diversity

    A. Making differences matter: A new paradigm for managing diversity. By: Thomas, David A.; Ely, Robin J.; Harvard Business Review, Sep/Oct96, Vol. 74 Issue 5, p79, 12p, 5c

        1. Diversity as a competitive weapon.

    B. R. Roosevelt Thomas, Jr., From affirmative action to affirming diversity, HBR, (#90213)

    C. Diversity at P&G.

    D. The Texas Association of Museums approach to diversity.

    E. Workplace diversity.

III. Sources for information on diversity

    A. The Diversity Hotwire

    B. The Diversity Gateway.

IV. EEOC.

    A. Settlement at Mitsubishi

    B. EEOC finds wide spread discrimination at Freddie Mac

V. The Americans with Disabilities Act.