DIVERSITY IN ORGANISATIONS

DIVERSITY IN ORGANISATIONS

Applying your newly gained understanding of cognitive diversity, identify and discuss a workplace or organisational situation where your position on a particular cognitive diversity dimension influenced your involvement and the outcome.
Begin by thinking about situations from your workplace or organisational context
(past or present) where you noticed differences in beliefs, attitudes or behaviours between you and other people. Was there something about
that particular situation that made you wonder what was going on, and what your underlying beliefs or thought processes were? Did the [apparent differences create conflict or disagreement? Or was the diversity on display well harnessed bythose involved?

Next,go to the results of your personal cognitive mapping exercise. ls there one of the dimensions (e.g., in what patterns do people reason? is uncertainty
avoided or tolerated? etc.) that you find particularly interesting or important in terms of your work or professional context? Did you find
it difficult to place yourself on any of the dimensions? Or by contrast, did other dimensions speak to you more easily?
Now bring together
the cognitive diversity dimension and the workplace or organisational situation. Describe that situation and the dimension, and discuss how
your position on that dimension affected your involvement and the outcome of the situation.
For this self-reflective exercise, you are encouraged to write in the first-person. That is to say, it is permissible for this exercise to write: “I have experienced the following
This happened to me”. Typically, you would not use the first person to write an academic assignment.
1.2 Literature review
Drawing
upon academic literature, synthesise and evaluate contemporary approaches to managing workplace inclusion with regard to one of the
following topics:

Gender equality

Age diversity and/or old er/m ature-ag ed workers

Employing Indigenous Australians
Pick one
of the topics above that most interests you, and/or is an important issue in your professional context. Then you should conduct a literature
search using the online library resources. Resourcesto develop your library search and information literacy skills have been provided for
this subject in the assessment section of the LMS site.
You should identify academic literature, and specifically peer-reviewed academic
journal articles, that provide an insight into managing workplace inclusion with respectto the topic you have chosen. What are the key
frameworks, practices and challenges of your chosen area of management practice? What do academics suggest constitutes best practice in
managing this area?
For this component, you should ensure that you draw upon 12-15 readingsfrom the academIc literature; a mInImum of 9 of
these readings must be peer-reviewed academic journal articles. You may draw on no more than 2 readings currently available through the
reading listforthis subject. You are partly being assessed on your research and information literacy skills, and in particular your
abilityto conduct a library search and to identify appropriate materials forthis task.
You should not use the first person to write
1.2.
1.3 Application exercise
With reference to an organisation with which you are familiar, identify and discuss barriersto
implementation of best practice in managing workplace inclusion, and recommend stepsto achieve and verify a successful implementation.
The aim of this exercise is to get you to applythe knowledge you have gained through the subject, and in particular from your literature search
in 1.2, to your current or previous organisation. In addition to applying your new knowledge, you are also being tested on your abilityto
use academic research as a form of evidence to underpin recommendationsthat would im(prove diversity and inclusion practice in your chosen
organisation. For 1.3, you should continue with the topic you wrote about in 1.2. You shoul break down the question into two halves.
First, in terms of your chosen organisation, think about the barriers that you believe exist for implementing best practice in
managing workplace inclusioon. Your research for 1 .2 should have given you an insight into best practice on the topic you are interested in.
You should describe the barriers to Implementation in your organisation, and discuss the nature and extent of those barriers.
develop recommended steps for achieving the implementation of best practice and verifying a successful implementation.
For this
component,draw upon 8-10 readings from the academic literature; a minimum 6 of these readings must be peer-reviewed academic journal articles. You may draw on no more than 2 readings currently available through the reading list forthis
subject. You are partly being assessed on your research and information literacy skills, and in particular your ability to conduct a library
searchd and to identify appropriate materials for this task. The academic readings will be of primary significance for responding to the second question where you are to recommend steps to achieve and verify a successful implementation.
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