Essays on Diversity Awareness

Application of Management Skills

The purpose of this exercise is to build a comprehensive plan for the development of the leadership capability in myself. Based on the understanding of the underlining principles of management, it is evident that leadership is the key skill, which I would like to develop and further work on to be able to complement and complete my profile as a current leader of self and a future leader of others. With that in mind, the following aspects of the leadership competence are central to my development model:

Personal and unique life story

Diversity awareness and management skills Continuous learning. First of all, personal and ...

Introduction

The early childhood education plays a critical role in shaping the overall personality of a child. The focus of early childhood is not just restricted towards quality education, but it is nurtured by imparting a decent moral character in them. This paper will evaluate the role of teachers in the awareness of cultural diversity in Early Childhood Education. It has been proven through research that the early five years in the life of a child are extremely critical for learning new skills and concepts. Adding the element of diversity awareness at an early stage is of sheer significance as ...

Executive Summary

Executive Summary Nurses are at the forefront of health care delivery. A patient’s satisfaction to the care he or she receives in a hospital depends on a large extent to the way nurses interact with him or her. At present, there is a growing diversity not only among patients served, but also within the health care personnel. Thus, for nurses to provide the best possible care for their patients, it is important to institutionalize effective mechanisms that promote diversity awareness and self-diversity awareness. An example of such mechanism is the proposed Diversity Awareness Campaign.

The Diversity Awareness Campaign is aimed ...

Fairness at Work

The podcast “Fairness at Work” raises the discussion of the fairness in the workplace, especially after the introduction of the 2010 Equality Act. The discussion involves the Minister for equalities of Lid-Dem, Lynne Featherstone, Conservative M for Skipton, Julian Smith and the CIPD´s own Diversity advisor Dianah Worman. The focus of the agenda is the abolition of the retirement age and the on-going debate, related to the introduction of the flexible working hours. The participants of the debate raise some very important questions, which concern not only the notion of the fairness, which Lynne Featherstone, for example, defines ...

Ponterotto, J. G. (2009). A Multicultural Competency Checklist for Counseling Training Programs. Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, 23(7), 11-20. This article is useful because it sets the foundation into the topic of multicultural competency. This article focuses on the major facets that have been a source of multicultural incompetency in society. Six important themes are addressed in this article. The first important theme that is tackled by the author of this article is the idea of minority representation. The author acknowledges that minority are inadequately represented in some key facets of society. This non-representation has created a scenario ...