• Opportunities
• What are 3 ways in which you can further engage or explore aspects of your personal diversity?
• What are aspects of your family background or heritage that you can learn more about?
• What is a diversity challenge about yourself that you can change into an opportunity? How can you leverage this opportunity in the workplace?
• Aspirations
• Are there aspects of your cultural identity that you would like to improve or expand?
• Are there stereotypes, prejudices, or generalizations that others hold about aspects of your cultural diversity that you wish they better understood?
• How have stereotypes, prejudices, or generalizations revealed themselves in your organization’s culture or in how people within your organization communicate?
• Results
• Are there individual factors about yourself that could improve because of an increased understanding of diversity and inclusion?
• Are there aspects of your workplace environment that can improve because of an increased understanding or appreciation for diversity and inclusion?
• What resources are needed to improve any of the above results?
Consider including images (pictures and/or graphics) to visually enhance your presentation and illustrate the 4 components of the SOAR diversity analysis.
Use the speaker notes section to enhance and explain information included on the slides, as well as to provide supplemental and reflective information.
Effectively managing a team in ways that support diversity and inclusion in the workplace is a critical skill. In the Wk 2 – Summative Assessment: SOAR Diversity Analysis Presentation, you completed a SOAR diversity analysis to demonstrate how individual awareness impacts organizational culture and communication relating to diversity and inclusion. Building upon this knowledge, your focus this week is on making a larger-scale impact as a leader within an organization by identifying strategies to ensure compliance associated with diversity and inclusion in the workplace. This assignment will allow you to demonstrate how effectively you can identify strategies to ensure compliance with U.S. laws and policies associated with diversity in the workplace.
Imagine that you have been asked to lead a focus group as a part of your organization’s commitment to creating and maintaining a diverse workforce. As a manager, you will work with your team to generate ideas and approaches supporting diversity and inclusivity. To increase awareness, your first task is to research and share about
write an 800- to 1,000-word paper in which you do the following:
• Briefly describe the lawsuit. Be sure to identify the compliance issue that led to the lawsuit and note the protected class or classes that were affected.
• Explain the EEOC’s role in this lawsuit.
• Research the company’s website to ascertain if there is a mission or value statement on diversity and inclusion. If so, comment on how the incident prompting the lawsuit aligns with the company’s stance on diversity and inclusion. If not, provide recommendations for at least 2 general strategies you would want them to include in a mission or value statement on diversity and inclusion.
• Provide recommendations to the employer about at least 2 specific strategies or policies they could apply to ensure compliance with the issue related to the lawsuit and how those strategies could be implemented within the organization.
• Discuss how this lawsuit and the compliance issue relate to diversity and inclusion within a larger social context.