Mediacom's Diversity and Inclusion Strategies: Award Presentation

This presentation examines Mediacom's diversity initiatives, which earned them an Australian HR Institute (AHRI) diversity award. The presentation highlights Mediacom's context, emphasizing their application of "Systems Thinking" to marketing. Two key initiatives are discussed: the creation of the Global Belonging Council, ensuring accountability and education across the company, and the promotion of teamwork to achieve common goals efficiently. The analysis underscores the importance of diversity and representation in the workplace, focusing on fostering a culture of empathy and inclusion. The presentation concludes that promoting diversity training, teamwork, and prioritizing inclusion are vital for organizational success.

Company Diversity Award Presentation

 Introduction
 Company’s Context and choice of diversity group
 Two Specific Initiatives
 Analysis of the company’s approach to their diversity category
 Conclusion
 References
Table of Contents

 Emotional intelligence and diversity basically comprises of the ability to manage, feel,
understand, articulate and applying the power of emotions for the purpose to interact with
lines of difference. The concept of diversity involves those aspects that could be understood as
the multiple dimensions.
 In this presentation, the chosen company is Mediacom which is one of the winners from the
last three years of the Australian HR institute( AHRI) diversity related awards. In reference to
the organisation, it is one of the leading media communications specialists located in North
Sydney.
Introduction

 MediCom is basically an Australian company which applies “Systems Thinking” technology
and philosophy to all the marketing levers which comprises of data, media and message. The
organisation basically design communication strategies for the purpose to deliver short term
results and also supporting the brands to build for the future.
Company’s Context and choice of diversity group

 Accountability and Educate: In context to the creation of the Global Belonging Council,
which is basically a diverse mix of individuals coming from various parts of the companies
who are accountable for the MediaCom’s Global ExCo.
 The company basically works with GroupM and WPP colleagues for the purpose to ensure
and drive sustainable change.
Two Specific Initiatives

 In context to Diversity, it plays a very important because representation at everywhere and not
only in the workplace. It is very important to remember that representation is considered to be
the progressive environment.
 In context to Mediacom, the organisation wanted to foster a culture empathy and inclusion
and want to focus on celebrating the uniqueness of their employees.
Analysis of the company’s approach to their diversity category

 Promoting Team Work: In reference to the company, another approach used is promoting team
work. In reference to Teamwork, it is basically the collaborative effort of the members of the
team or a group for the purpose to achieve a desired objective or goal for the purpose to
complete a task in a effective and efficient manner.
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 From the above presentation, it can be concluded that diversity plays a very important role in
the organisation and for the purpose to promote diversity in the workplace, it is very important
to promote diversity training, promoting team work and making the process of inclusion a
priority.
Conclusion

 Al-Dhuhouri, F.S., Alshurideh, M., Al Kurdi, B. and Salloum, S.A., 2020, October. Enhancing
our understanding of the relationship between leadership, team characteristics, emotional
intelligence and their effect on team performance: A Critical Review. In International
Conference on Advanced Intelligent Systems and Informatics (pp. 644-655). Springer, Cham.
 Hughes, C. and Brown, L.M., 2018. Exploring leaders’ discriminatory, passive-aggressive
behavior toward protected class employees using diversity intelligence. Advances in Developing
Human Resources, 20(3), pp.263-284.
 Rezvani, A., Barrett, R. and Khosravi, P., 2018. Investigating the relationships among team
emotional intelligence, trust, conflict and team performance. Team Performance Management:
An International Journal.
References