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Ogl 350 Paper 1
Ogl 350 Paper 1
Ogl 350 Paper 1
OGL 350
Professor Ghoreishian
Module 1
After completing the readings and activities from this module, I was able to
start to get a better understanding of diversity in organizations and why it’s important to
have diverse management practices. I feel like I have really been able to understand
when people feel there is a variety and it's not just the same person, the same thing
environment and culture to work in. “Diversity management refers to the specific
equality (Nkomo & Hoobler, 2014; Prasad & Mills, 1997)” (Dennissen, 220). From this
one article I read, they really dive deeper into the concept of dynamic process of
privilege and disadvantages and how they play a role in sustaining intersectional
inequalities in organizations (Dennissen, 219). When reading about this and learning
how this can really affect a company and their success/ production rate its really
amazing to think something that seems like should not be that big of a deal and affect
the success rate of any company or organization but it really does cause when people
don't feel included or welcomed it make you not want to do your best for whatever you
more view points on diversity and one point they made that really stuck out to me was
they argue about the how diversity management is yes indeed inpoent but they also
need to accompany visions of the future and what it looks like after we achieve this goal
(Galvin & Allen, 1). I think this is something that is important to think bout because what
will the world look like if we have completely gotten rid of discrimination cause it will look
vision means more than just the elimination of discrimination but how everything will
interesting to read about because it's hard to imagine a world without discriminination
cause that's the way it's been for so long so really sitting down and thinking about it
learning who you are so something I have been very interested in over a year now and
something that I have been trying to learn more about to better myself and figure out at
the end of the day who I am. This thing that stuck out to me the most while reading this
article was the statement he said “The parts of our identity that do capture our attention
are those that other people notice, and that reflect back on us” (Tatum, 2). This stuck
out to me because I feel this is a very true statement because we are influenced by
what other think or feel about us and so when other people notice certain things about
us we will hold onto these traits harder because we want to be noticed and liked so if
that gets attention we will present it in a social gathering. The Pie chart personally for
me was kind of challenging and confusing because I didn't really understand the entire
purpose behind it and I struggled with what categories to put on the pie chart, as well
as, how to divide them up. My pie chart was very basic cause it also wouldn't let me add
more to it so I did two things that have always been extremely important to me my
whole life and that was my family and education. After taking the pretest I ended up
scoring a 90 which i’m not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing since there is no
baseline score to go off of but after taking the test I learned right away that I have a lot
to actually learn because most of it was very unsure how to answer it which means I
So, when looking at how my family is and putting it into the Hofstede’s
model I am really able to see and describe the culture inside my family. Looking at the
first concept of individualism and collectivism, I would say that my family tends to show
more individualism traits because we do have a big concern for ourselves and each
other because at the end of the day we have each other always and we are a very close
knit family. Our household is also run more on the vertical individualist because it is like
a ranking of power and who's in charge in my household. For the power distance, it's
hard to explain because yes there is a definite power difference between everyone in
my household but at the end of the day we still all have each other's backs and will help
one another by sharing the power. Again we have a very wishy washy way with this
because some of it really applies to my family but some of it does not, so we all pride
ourselves on telling the truth no matter what and we do have specific rules of the house
that have to be followed. We also have a pretty set structure that the household is ran
in, so now looking and thinking more about this concept and my family we probably are
more of an uncertainty avoidance because for a long time we had a lot of uncertainty in
our life and now that we are in a pretty good place we don't like doing things that will
mess it up. I feel like my household is a little bit of both masculin and feminine because
my parents have always been tougher with us because this world is not an easy place
and they never wanted us to get swallowed up by it so they tried making us strong and
resilient to handle any challenges that get thrown at us. On the other hand they are still
very nurturing and caring because at the end of the day if you don't have a balance of
both something will always go wrong for you later in life. Lastly with time orientation i
think again here we embody a little bit of both sides of this concept because we are all
very intent on our future and what we can do to have a successful life but then at the
same time my dad is always talking about not to be in a rush to grow up and enjoy
where you are now because you will never have it back.
Works Cited
Dennissen, M., Benschop, Y., & Brink, M. (2020). Rethinking diversity management: An
219–240. https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840618800103
Galvin, T., & Allen, C. (2021). Diversity Management and the PostDiversity Vision: An
https://doi.org/10.1177/0095327X20920311
Tatum, B. (2010). The Complexity of Identity: Who Am I? In Readings for Diversity and
min. 5 sec.
http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2016/02/18/467253401/rent-a-minorit
y-promises-a-satirical-solution-to-diversity-problems