IDS 400 Module 3: Dallas Buyers Club Diversity Analysis Report

This report provides a sociological analysis of the movie "Dallas Buyers Club," examining the challenges related to diversity and how diversity management adds value to interactions from both personal and professional perspectives. The analysis focuses on the character Ron Woodroof's transformation and his fight against HIV/AIDS, highlighting discrimination, cultural differences, and political issues within the medical community. It explores the challenges faced by the characters in overcoming problems related to diversity, including social exclusion and inequalities. The report also discusses the importance of multimedia and communication strategies in reaching a wide audience and the value of diversity in enhancing flexibility, innovation, and social inclusion. The analysis emphasizes the movie's portrayal of the profound difference between disease and illness and the importance of treating individuals equally, regardless of their background. Finally, the report is supported by relevant bibliography.

Sociology

Introduction
 The topic constructs information drawing inference from the
movie named “Dallas Buyers Club” and discuss about the various
aspects of managing diversity
 It will also provide information about how the analysis of diversity
can assist in the addition of value and benefits through interaction
with people from both personal and professional perspectives
 By analysing the movie, it is understood that the self desperation
among Ron Woodroof helped him to fight against the disease with
the practices that are beyond traditional medical practices
 The scientific culture and diversity management have been the
focus of the topic along with the structure of medical facilities for
the epidemic caused by HIV/AIDS .

Concept of diversity from the
medical perspective
 According to the movie, medicine has been considered as a social
construct that consists of the various values, beliefs and practices
associated with the management of members within the society with
various skills, specialisation and labour division
 From the depictions in the movie, every members within the hospital
need collectively form a network including the doctors, nurses,
medical staffs, nurses as well as the patients
 This would help in managing a network of healthcare providers and at
the same time, maage diversity within the community by treating
medical aspects as social science
 The character Ron managed to develop his own character and
managed transformation by reliing on science and going beyond
traditional medical measures

Challenges faced by the character
in overcoming problems in
diversity After suffering from the disease, Ron managed to develop his
own character by transforming into an activist
 Rather than just treating his own illness, he focused on the illness
in the community rather than treating the disorder as a disease
 From the movie, its is understood that major problem or
challenge faced by Ron was due to the American culture where
he lived
 There was discrimination against individuals infected with HIV,
which further resulted in social exclusion

Challenges faced by the character in
overcoming problems in diversity (continued..)
 There were cultural differences even between the patients and
doctors from the international perspective, which further
alleviated the complexities and issues.
 Lack of investments in Ron also created challenges for the
character in the movie Dallas Groups Club
 At that time, the movie also showed he sex oriented inequalities
and discrimination that even hindered the management of rights
from the perspectives of homosexuals, as shown in the movie
 Another major challenge include the political ethos problem that
has been experienced within the medical community as a
cultural sensitive feeling related to the social domians of interest.

Critical analysis of diversity adding
value to interactions with people
 From the movie, it was clearly shown that Ron understood the
profound difference between disease and illness and focused on
the management of diversity
 He targeted the entire community rather than a single individual,
which meant prioritising on every individuals and treating them
equally regardless of their age, sex, race, religion or disorder
 From both personal as well as professional contexts, diversity has
added value to the management of interaction among the people
 The diversity management has helped in enhancing level of
flexibility as well as resulted in forming a diverse workforce
consisting of people from different backgrounds and cultures

Diversity adding value to
interactions with people
 The management of diversity enables better innovation and
generation of new ideas and concepts required to achieve
workforce efficiency
 From personal context, the management of diversity facilitates
social inclusion and better communication among the people
 Within the workforce, the analysis of diversity management can
also assist in focusing on different members of the community
rather than only own self
 This creates a positive image and ensures contributing to the
overcoming of issues related to the inequalities as an unit

Multimedia and
communication strategies
 The multimedia and communication strategies are implemented to
target a wide group of audience and ensure sending them
messages and information collectively
 One such approach could be the research and identification of the
target market consisting of different segments of people
 The goals and objectives must be set according to the criteria for
SMART
 The marketing budget must be identified, based on which, the
communication should be done and managed
 The marketing proposition enables identification of problems within
the community, as represented in the movie and ensure creation of
messages and information that are appealing to the audience

Bibliography
 Griffiths, P. J. (2015). Problems of religious diversity. John Wiley & Sons.
 Lehman, J., Stanley, K. O., & Miikkulainen, R. (2013, July). Effective diversity
maintenance in deceptive domains. In Proceedings of the 15th annual
conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation (pp. 215-222). ACM.
 Wrench, J. (2016). Diversity management and discrimination: Immigrants and
ethnic minorities in the EU. Routledge.
 Sabharwal, M. (2014). Is diversity management sufficient? Organizational
inclusion to further performance. Public Personnel Management, 43(2), 197-
217.
 Noe, R. A., Hollenbeck, J. R., Gerhart, B., & Wright, P. M. (2017). Human resource
management: Gaining a competitive advantage. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill
Education.
 Hynes, G. E., & Veltsos, J. R. (2018). Managerial communication: Strategies and
applications. SAGE Publications.

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