Subject Name Entry and Advancement in the Australian Workplace

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EAW1 – Australian Workplace Culture
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A3. Diversity Presentation
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 Task 1: Case Study

Instructions to students

1. Read the following statement carefully.

2. Form a group of 3-4 people.
3. You and your team members are required to discuss and negotiate with your team
members which six survivors should be sentenced to death from the Life Boat.
4. Provide your answers in the space provided and be prepared to present and justify the
reasons for your choices.
5. All team members must participate.

The Lifeboat Game

You are part of a sea expedition to Antarctica but the ship experienced an engine explosion
of unknown origin which has killed the captain and most of the crew.

Naturally, you contact the Coast Guard immediately and also organize all the ship's passengers
to monitor their progress.

Unfortunately, your luck isn't getting any better. The ship is sinking, and there is virtually no
chance that the Coast Guard will reach you before it vanishes under the waves.

Trying to swim or tread water is out of the question because of the freezing water.

A small lifeboat has been located on the ship which, at best, can hold six people.

Land is in sight, but it will take several hours of rowing on the rough waters to reach it.

You and the passengers have to decide who should use the lifeboat.

The survivors are as follows:

1) "Jerry" Takeyama, 37, Oriental, Japanese citizenship. Jerry works in the marketing division
of a Japanese computer company, and was travelling to Antarctica to help set up a new
modern computer. He has a wife and three children back home in Kyoto.

2) Ivan Primakov, 22, Russian citizenship with an Australian work visa. Ivan is a recent Russian
emigrant and the only surviving crew member. He is the youngest and most physically fit of
the survivors. He has no spouse or offspring.
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3) Dr. Caroline Miller, 41, Caucasian, Australian. Dr. Miller is a university physicist who has
been working at a remote research station in Antarctica studying radiation emitted over the
frozen continent. Several nights ago at dinner, she announced that her research has
accidentally led to what she believes will be the first working Unified Field Theory. She has
had a stable 10-year partnership with another woman. She has no children.

4) Dr. Thomas Johnson, 57, African - Australian. Dr. Johnson is an oncologist who works in
Melbourne doing research on children's cancer, most recently at Melbourne’s University
Hospital. He has been married for two years to his wife Andrea, also a doctor.

5) Helen Johnson, 23, Australian. Helen has worked as a nurse. Her work was going to involve
vaccinating of crew and transferable of medicine at the Antarctic Base. She just found out that
she is two months' pregnant to her boyfriend living in Tasmania.

6) Gooda Bega, 39, Australian aborigine. Mr. Bega is a junior local parliamentarian representing
a local Victoria Aboriginal community. His interest was to visit and see Antarctica and study
Australia’s interest in the region. Gooda worked as a social worker in different parts of
Australia before becoming part of the parliament. He represents the environmental concern
of his community. He has a wife and two children back at home in Melbourne.

7) Cheryl Carmen. 78, Canadian, Mrs. Carmen is a scientist with over 40 years of experience
in the field environmental sciences and conservation. This is her last trip to Antarctica, after
this she wants to go back to Canada and concentrate on writing her biography. She is a widow
and has three children and five grandchildren.

8) Rajish Patel. 30, Indian-Australian. Mr. Patel has just finished his studies in Meteorology in
Tasmania and this was his first trip to Antarctica. This was a great opportunity to explore this
continent and really put his knowledge to work. He was looking forward to this trip for two
years. He has a girlfriend back in Tasmania and is ready to get married within six weeks.

9)Tamara Dias, 35, American. Ms. Dias is a journalist working for Times magazine. This is her
second trip to Antarctica as part of a three-year scientific assignment dealing with the effect
of isolation in remote areas of the world. Tamara is a single and independent woman. She is
interested in developing her professional profile and knowledge.

10) Peter Baron, 40, Australian. Peter works as a builder in Sydney and he was just selected
because of his professional skills and experience, among 20 candidates, to work in building
the new extension of the living quarters at the station. His contract was done for two years’
stationary in Antarctica. He lives in Sydney and is married with two children.

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11) Susan Sangster. A 55-year-old, wheelchair bound, divorcee with three grown up children.
Her charity and fundraising work led to her securing a position on the expedition. Her
powerful family connections include the Kennedy and Rockefeller families; it is rumored she
used her connections to apply pressure on the committee for her inclusion.

12) Mohammed El- Tadros, 29 years old. Photographer, he has won several awards for his
remote location photography. He also photographed the Arab spring uprising in Egypt and
Libya. He is rumored to be related to the Bin Laden family and has connections in the tribal
regions of Yemen.

a) Nominate 6 people to be kicked off the Life Boat.

Person Reason Why

She is alone and sound like corrupted rich

1. Susan Sangster lady who put pressure on committee to go
on this trip.

He seems to have connection with Bin Laden

2. Mohammed El- Tadros
family.

3. Ivan Primakov He has no spouse or offspring.

She is single and she only come to this trip to

4. Tamara Dias increase her knowledge and experience not
for society.

Sha has no children and her research is not

5. Caroline Miller
approved yet.

She is quite old, and her children are all

6. Cheryl Carmen
grown up.

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 Task 2: Diversity Presentation

Instructions to students

1. To demonstrate clear understanding of the issues surrounding workplace Diversity

and appropriate responses to it, prepare and present a presentation based on your
previous place of employment. If you have never worked before you can use your
place of study, e.g.: An Australian University

2. You must wear business attire and act professionally when presenting.

3. This Assessment is to be completed individually.

4. Prepare at least one slide addressing the questions below. Answer with bullet
points. Maximum three sentences per bullet point.

5. Load on your USB and bring to class. Make sure the teacher has a softcopy of your
presentation.

6. Present your Diversity Case Study to the class.

7. Duration of your presentation should be 5-10 minutes.

8. Upload your assessment and a copy of your presentation in your assessment file on
RTOm.

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 Questions

a) Identify three Types of Diversity in your Workplace / University. Then clearly explain to the
class how this diversity existed in your Workplace / University.

1. Age and Generation

2. Cultural
3. Disability and Ability

b) Discuss how these differences have impacted on your Workplace. E.g.: Ramps installed for
wheelchair access.

 We do staff meeting and other gat-to-together to encourage everyone to speak

with fellow colleagues and share their thoughts and experiences. By doing this we
can minimise the gap between generations and different age groups.
 To cop up with cultural diversity we celebrate festival of all different cultures. We
wish people in their way on major festival of their culture. We also have prayer
room to allow Muslim community to pray without any disturbance.
 To help people with physical disability, in my university they have installed ramp and
elevators for easy access. People with hearing or vision impairment, there are
telephone headset and screen reader to help them communicate.

c) How did you modify your behaviour in order to accommodate this type of diversity?
Give at least two examples of your own or your colleagues behaviour.

 I and my other co-workers have modified our behaviour and approach in many ways
to accommodate diversity in our workplace. I always participate in all those staff
meetings and share my thoughts and experiences on various topic. I also give others
a chance to express themselves and we all welcome to the decision we have made
together.
 One of my colleagues is very keen to learn and understand different cultures. He
always asks people about their festival, native foods, and other ceromancy to
understand them and everyone also share their knowledge with him, in this way we
all find unity in diversity.

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Presentation Slides

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 Assessment Performance Criteria

Not Competent
Acknowledge

Competent
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Student
Recognise individual differences and respond appropriately ☒ ☐ ☐
Develop positive working relationships with colleagues and
superiors, and apply standards of professional behaviour in the ☒ ☐ ☐
workplace
Understand the importance of presentation and behavioural
skills such how to dress, groom and present oneself, and
general office behaviour ☒ ☐ ☐

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ASSESSMENT RESULT Competent Not Yet
Competent
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