The following topic was Exploring Diversity. Cristina explained different concepts like: the characteristics of diversity, dimensions, and cultural issues. We also saw different situation in which diversity played an essential role and discussed the possible solutions to the cases.
Diversity is a fundamental component within organizations today, because globalization has increase the number of people moving from one place to another. Managers must deal with employees from different race, religion, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, cultures among others. This diversity could transfer into advantages to the companies, because there would be different points of view and several approaches to solve a possible trouble. It is more likely to individuals or groups that differ form other groups or individuals in matters of religion, race and political orientation to enter in conflict. These conflicts often occur as a consequence of discrimination.
According to Cant, there are some competencies to understand diversity that could be useful to mitigate the impact of cultural issues. These competencies are: flexibility, resourcefulness, tolerance for ambiguity, vision, cultural self- awareness, cultural consciousness, and multicultural leadership. Also an important skill to deal with these conditions is cultural intelligence which is the ability to operate in a variety of situations.
In my opinion, diversity is an important part of ours lives nowadays. It depends of how we manage the different circumstances in which we need to interact with people from diverse races or ideologies. Through these situations, we can learn and have more tools that we can implement in different negotiations or in our day life.
¿Do you think the entry and integration of new members to the European Union are processes that promote diversity? or, on the contrary, ¿strive to homogenize the European Society?
I think that the integration of new members to the European Union are processes that promote diversity, because all countries from Europe have different races and cultures, that means, that with the incorporation of one state they are allowing diverse people which came from another background and customs.
According to Toggenburg, The European Commission recognizes that European societies are multi-cultural and multiethnic. The degree of that diversity depends to a significant level on the kind of immigration policy implemented. As a result, the control of borders, the decision who can enter a territory and reside there lays at the core of the management of ethics and cultural diversity.
The moment of integration covers a broad range of ambitious measures accommodating migrants and minorities within a society. With respect to European Union citizens who moved to another stated and form minorities, the Union did not adopt a distinctive integrative policy. The overall prohibition of any way of discrimination on the basis of nationality is meant to cover these groups. Therefore, the fundamental freedoms and EU citizenship assure discrimination-free access to social and economic rights. The law also covers the right of preservation of cultural identity. (Toggenburg 2005)
As we can identify in the document there are a lot of policies that protect migrants and minorities in the European Union assuring the same rights to nationals or migrants. Hence they are encouraging cultural identity within the countries that belong to the Union and they are not trying to shape a uniformity society.
Diversity is a fundamental component within organizations today, because globalization has increase the number of people moving from one place to another. Managers must deal with employees from different race, religion, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, cultures among others. This diversity could transfer into advantages to the companies, because there would be different points of view and several approaches to solve a possible trouble. It is more likely to individuals or groups that differ form other groups or individuals in matters of religion, race and political orientation to enter in conflict. These conflicts often occur as a consequence of discrimination.
According to Cant, there are some competencies to understand diversity that could be useful to mitigate the impact of cultural issues. These competencies are: flexibility, resourcefulness, tolerance for ambiguity, vision, cultural self- awareness, cultural consciousness, and multicultural leadership. Also an important skill to deal with these conditions is cultural intelligence which is the ability to operate in a variety of situations.
In my opinion, diversity is an important part of ours lives nowadays. It depends of how we manage the different circumstances in which we need to interact with people from diverse races or ideologies. Through these situations, we can learn and have more tools that we can implement in different negotiations or in our day life.
¿Do you think the entry and integration of new members to the European Union are processes that promote diversity? or, on the contrary, ¿strive to homogenize the European Society?
I think that the integration of new members to the European Union are processes that promote diversity, because all countries from Europe have different races and cultures, that means, that with the incorporation of one state they are allowing diverse people which came from another background and customs.
According to Toggenburg, The European Commission recognizes that European societies are multi-cultural and multiethnic. The degree of that diversity depends to a significant level on the kind of immigration policy implemented. As a result, the control of borders, the decision who can enter a territory and reside there lays at the core of the management of ethics and cultural diversity.
The moment of integration covers a broad range of ambitious measures accommodating migrants and minorities within a society. With respect to European Union citizens who moved to another stated and form minorities, the Union did not adopt a distinctive integrative policy. The overall prohibition of any way of discrimination on the basis of nationality is meant to cover these groups. Therefore, the fundamental freedoms and EU citizenship assure discrimination-free access to social and economic rights. The law also covers the right of preservation of cultural identity. (Toggenburg 2005)
As we can identify in the document there are a lot of policies that protect migrants and minorities in the European Union assuring the same rights to nationals or migrants. Hence they are encouraging cultural identity within the countries that belong to the Union and they are not trying to shape a uniformity society.
References
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Toggenburg, Gabriel N. 2005. “Who is managing ethnic and cultural diversity in the European Condominium? The moments of entry, integration and preservation”. Journal of Common Market Studies 43 (4) 717-38.
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