In this chapter students will be able to: Identify some of the main reasons organizations need to make location decisions, explain why location decisions are important, discuss the options that are available for location decisions,. | Chapter 11 Managing cultural diversity Lucy Taksa and Dimitria Groutis Copyright 2010 McGraw-Hill Australia Pty Ltd PPTs to accompany Strachan, French and Burgess, Managing Diversity 11- Intercultural approaches Assimilation – one culture dominant over all others Multi-culturalism – no culture inferior to dominant culture Copyright 2010 McGraw-Hill Australia Pty Ltd PPTs to accompany Strachan, French and Burgess, Managing Diversity 11- Multiculturalism Multiculturalism: gave ethnic communities the right to retain and cultivate their different cultures did not go beyond the realm of communication and cultural dissonance did not address discrimination on the grounds of difference. Copyright 2010 McGraw-Hill Australia Pty Ltd PPTs to accompany Strachan, French and Burgess, Managing Diversity 11- Legislation Anti-discrimination is designed to provide equal access for individuals and to address growing incidences of ethnic stereotyping and sexism. Equal employment . | Chapter 11 Managing cultural diversity Lucy Taksa and Dimitria Groutis Copyright 2010 McGraw-Hill Australia Pty Ltd PPTs to accompany Strachan, French and Burgess, Managing Diversity 11- Intercultural approaches Assimilation – one culture dominant over all others Multi-culturalism – no culture inferior to dominant culture Copyright 2010 McGraw-Hill Australia Pty Ltd PPTs to accompany Strachan, French and Burgess, Managing Diversity 11- Multiculturalism Multiculturalism: gave ethnic communities the right to retain and cultivate their different cultures did not go beyond the realm of communication and cultural dissonance did not address discrimination on the grounds of difference. Copyright 2010 McGraw-Hill Australia Pty Ltd PPTs to accompany Strachan, French and Burgess, Managing Diversity 11- Legislation Anti-discrimination is designed to provide equal access for individuals and to address growing incidences of ethnic stereotyping and sexism. Equal employment opportunity encourages strategies to provide equal access to and equal opportunities for employment, and to recognise, manage and maximise benefits of diversity and improve the absorption of migrants. Copyright 2010 McGraw-Hill Australia Pty Ltd PPTs to accompany Strachan, French and Burgess, Managing Diversity 11- EEO and MD EEO and MD share critical ideals. They both: decry discrimination and extol virtues of inclusiveness rely on individual solution of systemic problems have similar focus on policy development, law and changes to regulatory practice assume valuing cultural difference enhances the management of such difference Both strategies share a homogenising orientation failing to appreciate not all cultural groups respond in the same ways to strategies designed to encourage inclusivity. Copyright 2010 McGraw-Hill Australia Pty Ltd PPTs to accompany Strachan, French and Burgess, Managing Diversity 11- Social capital Social capital: focuses attention on networks .
