The Manager's Pocket Guide to Diversity Management

Workplace Diversity Self-Assessment

Developing a comprehensive implementation plan to institutionalize diversity requires that managers as change agents must question their own assumptions and understandings about workplace diversity and what it will take to get there. It requires commitment and accountability to the changing realities of a global marketplace, a willingness to address them, and an ability to integrate the organization’s vision of future performance through the use of all diverse assets of the organization. Complete Exercise 3-1 to explore your own values, perceptions, and expectations about diversity.

Exercise 3-1. Self-Assessment

Examine how your values, perceptions, and expectations about diversity relate to your own behavior ...