Importance of Diversity Training in the Workplace

This presentation discusses the importance of diversity training in the workplace and its fundamental aspects. It also highlights the benefits of diversity training programs and the steps required by large organizations to include diversity training. Additionally, it covers the potential drawbacks of diversity training and the factors that contribute to a successful diversity program.

Topic:
The topic provided is the advantages of diversity
training and why it is required in workforce. In the
following discussion, the main fundamental aspects
of the importance of diversity training will be
discussed and the reason why they are so
important in everyday work environment and the
daily lives of people.
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Requirements:
The requirements for this assignment are the steps
required by large organizations to include diversity
training. Companies even go to the length of spending
millions of dollars on diversity programs and therefore
have increased bias among individual employees and
produced meaningful diversity and inclusions. However
due to focus on bias reductions, many workplace diversity
programs have shown increase in hostilities within the
employees. It is also found out that many of the diversity
training are intended towards toward the managers or the
higher ups. This is because the previous researches
show that the benefits of recruiting in diverse groups in
terms of race and gender for training and recruiting from
all the levels of the organization.
Objectives:
To form a sense of awareness about diversity
issues amongst the employees to bring in
cohesiveness in teams. The human resource
managers and the departments handle many
scenarios that are in related to diversity
therefore many companies started to include
diversity training in the 1960s which was as a
response to civil rights movement. It was a
major step for the foundation of the black and
white race equality in professional fields like in
sports or at the workplace. Moreover other
than the factor of skin colour, diversity training
also includes gender, race religion, caste and
even disabilities. It can also be stated that
people may show the aspects on diversity on
the basis or personality, whether the person is
an introvert or an extrovert. Even personal
traits like attitude, values, willpower can be
included in the diversity management. When
implementing these factors, a company
considers each and every of the following
aspects while creating project teams. If in a
team, all the members do take the respective
approaches towards work and be on the same
page then it could be an imbalanced team and
the team will be successful.
Results:
Due to focus on bias reductions, many workplace diversity
programs have shown increase in hostilities within the
employees. It is also found out that many of the diversity
training are intended towards toward the managers or the
higher ups. This is because the previous researches show
that the benefits of recruiting in diverse groups in terms of
race and gender for training and recruiting from all the levels
of the organization. The lack of diversity and inclusion in a
workplace can happen because of personal decisions of the
management. It is known that the most successful workplaces
with the presence of diversified programs are the ones which
have high amount of engagement and accountability, like
diversified manager and monitoring programs and even the
involvement of the task force.
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DIVERSITY TRAINING PROGRAMS
Factors about the benefits of diversity training in work culture