Cultural Diversity Training Program Case Study
Jessica Prejean
Human Resource Management -3001-1
Professor: Swinton Hudson
WK 2 disc
Incident 10- The Cultural Diversity Training Program
This case study involved a human resource teacher by the name of Dr. Jennifer Barnes and her University’s Cultural Diversity Training. While looking forward to attending an ongoing educational class on diversity training, she was very disappointed with her University only giving knowledge on ethnic group of people. Dr. Barnes was gratified with the poor education being taught on Cultural Diversity Training.
Cultural Diversity should be taken very serious; it can become war if handled lightly. In order to have a successful and positive organization of people, the people must respect each other …show more content…
My suggestions for improvement: According to Lai and Kleiner (2001), an organization should conduct the following steps to build a strategic cultural diversity-training program: I do not see anything wrong with focusing on a area that seeks a issue. According to the scenario, 60% of the community is black, but only 15% of students and 4% of faculty is black (Nkomo, Fottler, and McAfee, 2011). While this seems to be their main focus the university needs to stress, the different phases of diversity such as gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, and more. I would recommend the program to be more forceful towards being interactive; such as group discussions leadership training, role-play, small group discussion, brainstorming, and interrogative (Lai & Kleiner, 2011). The possible inconveniences of disregarding it as an issue could cause “discrimination and harassment lawsuits” (Mathis et al., 2014). According to Lai and Kleiner (2001): By applying these steps, diversity training can inform employees with ways to increase individual, work group, and organizational efficiency through a better appreciation and understanding of the value added by diversity and
Human Resource Management -3001-1
Professor: Swinton Hudson
WK 2 disc
Incident 10- The Cultural Diversity Training Program
This case study involved a human resource teacher by the name of Dr. Jennifer Barnes and her University’s Cultural Diversity Training. While looking forward to attending an ongoing educational class on diversity training, she was very disappointed with her University only giving knowledge on ethnic group of people. Dr. Barnes was gratified with the poor education being taught on Cultural Diversity Training.
Cultural Diversity should be taken very serious; it can become war if handled lightly. In order to have a successful and positive organization of people, the people must respect each other …show more content…
My suggestions for improvement: According to Lai and Kleiner (2001), an organization should conduct the following steps to build a strategic cultural diversity-training program: I do not see anything wrong with focusing on a area that seeks a issue. According to the scenario, 60% of the community is black, but only 15% of students and 4% of faculty is black (Nkomo, Fottler, and McAfee, 2011). While this seems to be their main focus the university needs to stress, the different phases of diversity such as gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, and more. I would recommend the program to be more forceful towards being interactive; such as group discussions leadership training, role-play, small group discussion, brainstorming, and interrogative (Lai & Kleiner, 2011). The possible inconveniences of disregarding it as an issue could cause “discrimination and harassment lawsuits” (Mathis et al., 2014). According to Lai and Kleiner (2001): By applying these steps, diversity training can inform employees with ways to increase individual, work group, and organizational efficiency through a better appreciation and understanding of the value added by diversity and