Working with Diverse People: Understanding Diversity, Discriminatory Practices, and Human Rights

Work with diverse
people

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
1. Explain diversity. Give five examples of how diversity is expressed................................3
2) Give an example of discriminatory practice and explain why it is discriminatory............4
3. Using the link below, identify 3 basic human rights, from the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights, and discuss how they can be breached..........................................................4
4. To be culturally inclusive it is important to understand the historical and contemporary
issues faced by Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (ATSI) people. Explain how
these issues may impact on their access to and engagement with services............................5
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................5
1) Issues in relation to diversity that may have contributed to Jack’s behaviour towards Jill5
2) Potential issues in relation to diversity as the support worker...........................................6
3) Despite Jack’s challenging nature, human rights that must be provided for in this
circumstance...........................................................................................................................6
4) Communication skills would you draw upon to establish your relationship with Jack.....6
5) If Jack was hearing impaired and could best communicate using sign language, how could
you accommodate this need? Identify a service that could help with this issue...................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Diversity is defined as social identity in terms of class, ethnicity, religion, gender,
nationality, sexual orientation (Bakshy and et. al., 2015). It is visible difference which is shown
by various groups of social institution in culture, status, philosophy and others. People from
different places, location, races works in an organisation. This also helps in sharing of various
opinions and views regarding subject matter. Working with diverse people increase knowledge
and skills of staff and employees. This assessment highlights diversity, discriminatory practices
and rights of human beings. The personal reflection is done for communication skills and clinical
skills with helps of given case study.
TASK 1
1. Explain diversity. Give five examples of how diversity is expressed.
Diversity is defined as range of human characteristics that is found at community or workplace
(Blazek and Hraňová, 2012). This implies dealing with different people, cross cultural
communication and creation of harmonious workplace. It is described as different
characteristics and traits of individuals which make them unique and different. This includes
appearance, role, age, beliefs, ability, values, gender, sexual orientation. In order to work in
organisation, diversity is required so that better results can be achieved. The example where
diversity is expressed in following ways:
Diversity in Nations- All the people of nations should be treated equally and provided
fair treatment. For example, people from Australia should not discriminate people of other
countries in any category working in their organisation.
Diversity at Workplace- It means employing individuals who are different from one
another and does not belong to same background. The differences arise due to national origin,
religion, age, gender, education, physical appearance, sexual orientation, etc.
Diversity in Education- The students from different parts of world comes together for
studying where they share their own knowledge, skills and experience with others.
Diversity at Patient Care- In case of patient care, discrimination should not occur on
the basis of age, gender, colour, sex, etc.
Diversity at Selection- The candidate should be selected on basis of experience and
skills possessed by them.