BIZ102 Reflective Journal: Diversity, Inclusion, and VUCA - Torrens

This reflective journal delves into the understanding of diversity and inclusion within an academic and professional context. The author reflects on personal learnings from conversations about diversity, acknowledging differences in age, gender, and cultural background while emphasizing the importance of inclusivity and equal opportunities. Theoretical concepts, such as the Hofstede model, are used to understand cultural differences and the need for respect in a globalized world. The journal also addresses the competencies, skills, and qualities necessary to succeed in a VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity) world, highlighting problem-solving, coordination, and character strengths like hope, gratitude, and teamwork. The reflection concludes with an emphasis on valuing diversity and developing skills to achieve future career goals as a business analyst in a challenging and dynamic environment.

Reflective Journal 3
Diversity & Inclusion

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
What have you learnt about yourself from this conversation?...............................................3
What specific theoretical concepts from this module give you the greatest understanding of
your own approach to Diversity & Inclusion?.......................................................................3
What competencies, skills and qualities will be most critical for you to achieve your future
career goals in a VUCA world?..............................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES:...............................................................................................................................6
Books and Journals.................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Diversity can be understood as different individuals working together. After globalisation
the employees from different nations work together inclusively in order to promote diverse
culture (Bernstein and Et. Al., 2020). The students also go to foreign to carry on their higher
studies. The students belong to different nation, caste, culture, race, background. There is need of
providing equal opportunities to all the students so that all of them can learn together effectively.
There is discussion related to learnings from the conversations. The own approach of diversity
and inclusion are part of this report. In the end, there us discussion related to strengths that helps
to achieve future career goals.
MAIN BODY
What have you learnt about yourself from this conversation?
I am able to understand that all the students are different from one another if measured in
age, gender, cultural background. I am able to understand that I am different but we all as student
have common approach to learn. I want to enhance my skills and knowledge by studying
effectively. I belong to different culture then the colleagues. I am a person who values diversity
and do not discriminate on any ground. I believe that all the humans are equal and want to
achieve the desired goals of studying. This conversation has made clear that I have good
communication skills that will help me to interact with others properly. This is necessary to get a
good job in future. I will always respect diversity and will work effectively with others.
What specific theoretical concepts from this module give you the greatest understanding of your
own approach to Diversity & Inclusion?
There were different theories and concepts that are covered under Diversity and Inclusion. It
is important to study all of them and are of great importance. I am able to understand that the
individuals are diverse from one another but it is important to work together with inclusion. After
the study of Hofstede model, in am able to know about different dimensions in all the country’s.
The culture of the nations is different form one another. Some nations are more powerful than
others (Joshi and Et. Al., 2020). The approach of business is also different in all the nations.
Some nations believe in individualism and others are collective. It is necessary to respect the
working culture of all the nations. The learning level of the students is different and at the same
time all the study pattern is also diverse.

My approach to diversity and inclusion is simple and I respect the people of different
nations. For me all the students who are studying with me are equal. I believe that all the students
must be given equal opportunity so that all of them are able to learn. It is necessary to
communicate with all the students so that there are no chances of miscommunication and get
misunderstandings (Mitchell and Et. Al., 2020). There is need of working in teams and
developing relations with the students. The team work is carried effectively when diverse
students work together as the work is completed with skills and knowledge of all the students.
This approach helps me to achieve the objectives on right time and in effective manner.
What competencies, skills and qualities will be most critical for you to achieve your future career
goals in a VUCA world?
There is need of various skills that are required to achieve career goal in Volatility,
Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity World. There is need of having competency to face the
risk at the time it takes place. I want by career as business analyst and there is need of skills and
qualities that will help me to overcome all the barriers that might take place. This will help to
overcome the risk effectively. The problem solving skills is necessary to work in the complex
world so that situations and problems can be solved effectively. There are various problems that
take place among employees and a business analyst must have capability to solve the issues
among them. The coordination and cooperation with others is one of the necessary quality
required to achieve success (Jimen and Et. Al., 2019). This helps to build relation with others and
complete all the work in time and is one of the most required qualities of business analyst. The
top five VIA Character Strengths that helps me are hope, gratitude, teamwork, humility, and
fairness that will help me to achieve career goals as business analyst. These are necessary to
achieve and develop competency. It is necessary to develop relations with all the people around.
There are various uncertainties and problems that can take place at the time of working in VUCA
world.

CONCLUSION
From the above report, it is concluded that students must understand the concept of diversity
and respect the same. All the students are different from one another and there is need of valuing
the same so that better results are attained. Own approach to diversity and inclusion is part of this
report. In the end of this report, there is evaluation related to the skills that help to achieve future
goals in VUCA world.

REFERENCES:
Books and Journals
Bernstein and Et. Al., 2020. From diversity to inclusion to equity: A theory of generative
interactions. Journal of Business Ethics, 167(3), pp.395-410.
Jimen and Et. Al., 2019. Underrepresented faculty play a disproportionate role in advancing
diversity and inclusion. Nature ecology & evolution, 3(7), pp.1030-1033.
Joshi and Et. Al., 2020. The state and fate of linguistic diversity and inclusion in the NLP
world. arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.09095.
Mitchell and Et. Al., 2020, February. Diversity and inclusion metrics in subset selection.
In Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (pp. 117-123).