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    Diversity & Inclusion: Why is Diversity and Inclusion so Important in the Workplace
    Diversity & Inclusion: Why is Diversity and Inclusion so Important in the Workplace
    Diversity & Inclusion: Why is Diversity and Inclusion so Important in the Workplace
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    Diversity & Inclusion: Why is Diversity and Inclusion so Important in the Workplace

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    The world of business today is one that is characterized by constant development, constant progression, and constant advancement in the ways that businesses are structured and carry out day-to-day operations. However, many businesses still are experiencing tremendous gaps in critical areas of interpersonal and social development. These areas include diversity and inclusion.
    Diversity and inclusion primarily encompass gender, race, ethnicity, age, and a person’s background; and many today around the world are facing a tremendous lack of diversity and inclusion in their organizations. Although many businesses are taking significant steps towards being more diverse and making both diversity and inclusion a greater part of their business models and cultures; the developments that have taken place do not sufficiently make workplaces diverse or inclusive.
    Thus, in recent years there have emerged many studies, models, and concepts that have sought to improve diversity and inclusion in workplaces. However, despite all these developments, there are tremendous challenges and milestones that diversity and inclusion must overcome and meet; and, there are many ways that businesses around the world are constantly improving diversity and inclusion of all people—and improving equal opportunity employment for all people.
    To delve into this, the following research will highlight various components of diversity and inclusion, such as their definition in business; and, the history, development, and progress of diversity and inclusion today. Additionally, this research will highlight the common challenges, shortcomings, benefits, and best practices of diversity and inclusion—including several regional case studies from around the world. The final components of this research will highlight how diversity and inclusion can be improved, critical concepts for businesses, statistics, and how to implement diversity and inclusivity into business models today.
    Together, this research will provide a comprehensive understanding and analysis of diversity and inclusion in today’s economy; and, can be utilized by businesses and professionals to learn about how they can collectively improve diversity and inclusion in the future.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEuvouria
    Release dateDec 14, 2021
    ISBN9798774369669
    Diversity & Inclusion: Why is Diversity and Inclusion so Important in the Workplace

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      Diversity & Inclusion - Euvouria LLC

      Table of Figures

      Figure 1: Similarities and differences of diversity and inclusion

      Figure 2: Current Timeline of diversity and inclusion in the workplace

      Figure 3: The Diversity and Inclusion Practitioner Competencies Model (The Conference Board, 2008)

      Figure 4: The education model of diversity and inclusion (The Kaleidoscope Group, n.d.)

      Figure 5: Deloitte Diversity and Inclusion Maturity model (Bourke, 2018)

      Figure 6: Inclusion framework (Lynn Shore, et al., 2011)

      Figure 7: Korn Ferry D&I Maturity Model (NICSA, 2016)

      Figure 8: Sustainable Diversity & Inclusion Model (NICSA, 2016)

      Figure 9: Benefit of diversity and inclusion, greater equity (Bourke, 2018)

      Figure 10: Benefits of diversity (Zojceska, 2018)

      Figure 11: Strategies to improve diversity and inclusion

      Figure 12: State of North American diversity (Garr, et al., 2014)

      Chapter

      1

      Overview

      The world of business today is one that is characterized by constant development, constant progression, and constant advancement in the ways that businesses are structured and carry out day-to-day operations. However, many businesses still are experiencing tremendous gaps in critical areas of interpersonal and social development. These areas include diversity and inclusion.

      Diversity and inclusion primarily encompass gender, race, ethnicity, age, and a person’s background; and many today around the world are facing a tremendous lack of diversity and inclusion in their organizations. Although many businesses are taking significant steps towards being more diverse and making both diversity and inclusion a greater part of their business models and cultures; the developments that have taken place do not sufficiently make workplaces diverse or inclusive.

      Thus, in recent years there have emerged many studies, models, and concepts that have sought to improve the diversity and inclusion in workplaces. However, despite all these developments, there are tremendous challenges and milestones that diversity and inclusion must overcome and meet; and, there are many ways that businesses around the world are constantly improving diversity and inclusion of all people—and improving equal opportunity employment for all people.

      To delve into this, the following research will highlight various components of diversity and inclusion, such as their definition in business; and, the history, development, and progress of diversity and inclusion today. Additionally, this research will highlight the common challenges, shortcomings, benefits, and best practices of diversity and inclusion—including several regional case studies from around the world. Final components of this research will highlight how diversity and inclusion can be improved, critical concepts for businesses, statistics, and how to implement diversity and inclusivity into business models today.

      Together, this research will provide a comprehensive understanding and analysis of diversity and inclusion in today’s economy; and, can be utilized by businesses and professionals to learn about how they can collectively improve diversity and inclusion in the future.

      Chapter

      2

      Defining Diversity

      Today, diversity is something that has become an extremely prevalent topic in society, and in business. Racial diversity, gender diversity, and many other forms of diversity are all prevalently discussed in many areas of life today; and, it has become something that many people discuss—yet these same people often don’t actually know what it means. Rather, people often think of diversity as a tag word to include people with backgrounds or characteristics similar to theirs—often becoming a tool of persuasion in today’s business world and society.

      However, defining diversity in its most basic sense is simply being diverse, or of having a whole that is comprised of totally different parts. In business, diversity can be defined as employing people, or including people, from different backgrounds, with different views and beliefs, with different characteristics, and with different outlooks on business.

      In other words, diversity in business can most often be defined as employing people who are different from one another. This could include genders, races, backgrounds, values, beliefs, religions, or any number of characteristics that define people—and differentiate them.

      In the past, diversity simply referred to hiring more women, or hiring more people of color—or, simply diluting the concentration of old-white men in business. Today, however, it is deeper than this. Diversity in the past was simply a set of actions for businesses to ‘look good’ to society, and to be viewed as more socially sustainable and forward-thinking. It rarely provided deeper meaning or

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