Question: Hi, please help me answer the following question after reading the scenario provided in the picture: Description : One suggestion to address the worksite grievances
Hi, please help me answer the following question after reading the scenario provided in the picture:
Description: One suggestion to address the worksite grievances is this: Make the team less diverse and utilize local people with similar backgrounds because they can work more cohesively. From a diversity perspective, this would not be the best decision. This suggestion fails to use cultural self-awareness to see the benefits of a diverse team and the importance of culturally diverse communication to support feelings of inclusivity.
Question: What are five reasons why the team could benefit from not implementing this suggestion and continuing with its current diverse team?
You have been hired as an wiernal consultant to increase the productily and reduce the conflict among a team of 20 professionals. The company's HA team has faciltated many exercises and interventions to improve the cohesiveness of the team whose cultural differences are leading to a great deal of the friction and discord. Each of the team members has an important expertise that fits the needs of the organization, making it nearly impossible to remove any of them. To corrplete specialized tasks, the team breaks into smal groups of 2-4 members. The tearn has three months remaining to create a product that is of national importance. The initial deadine was six months, but the first three months were largely lost dise to the cultural confict. Your analysis should begin with a cultural self-analysis. You wil have an opportunity to think theough strategies to support the diversity in the community and improve feelings of inclusivity as you evaluate culturally diverse communication and strategies to support cultural empathy to heip differentiate and create equalify, equify, and justice in the work environment. Amer a thocough HR investigation, It has been determined the common theme among most of the complaints and grievances that have led to the productivity issues are centered. around the following: - A perceived lack of understanding and accoptance of some team membors' diversity and dfferencos in how they approach the task, - A perception among some inequties are not addressed by the company, and - Some not teeling included when working alongside others Due to the highly confidential nature of the project, team members are required to live in a compound together for six months: however, they all have personal rooms. They are perriitted the same number of hours to oontact friends and family electronically (all corversations are knowingly recorded) but they are not allowed to leave. Outsiders are not allowed within the compound. Team members have ayreed to work 10 hours per day. six days per week. Some olements of some of the characteristics of the 20 members are as follows: Gender Identity - 8 people that identily as mule - 8 people that identify as female - 4 people that do not identify as ether male or female Ethnicity and Race - E people that solt-repont as Cascasian - 4 people that set-report as mult-facial (two or more races) - Ithat selffeport as African American andlor Black - 1 person that sell-repons as Asian - 1 person that seif-reports as Pacifo istander - 1 person that seifereports as American indian - 3 people that selfepont as Hispanio or Latino Age - 10 members of the team are between the ages of 25 and 40 - 10 members of the team are between the ages of 41 and 66 Ability 5tatus - 6 members of the team have reported disabities that are protected under the ADA. Religion - 10 of them repont being part of a specilo religion, including denominations of Christanity, lalam, Budehism, Judaism, Hindusm and Taoism. - I of theen do not report being associated with any religion and or report boing atheist. Age - 10 members of the team are between the ages of 25 and 40 - 10 members of the team are between the ages of 41 and 66 Ability Status - 6 members of the team have reported disabilities that are protected under the ADA. Religion - 16 of them report being part of a specific religion, including denominations of Christianity, Isiam, Buddhism, Judaism, Hinduism and Taoism. - 4 of them do not report being associated with any religion and/or report being atheist. Sexual Orientation - 11 report being heterosexual - 8 report as being lesbian, gay, bisexual, or another sexual preference other than heterosexual - 1 reports as not having a sexualify at all BMI - 10 of them have a BMI that places them in the normal weight range. - 2 of them have a BMI that places them in the underweight category. - 6 of them have a BMI that places them in the overweight category. - 2 of them have a BMI that places them in the obese category. Language - All 20 of them speak English fluently. - 13 of them speak at least one other language fiuently. - 9 of them do not identify English as their first language. Marital Status - 10 report "married" as their legal marital status - 6 report "single" as their legal marital status. - 1 reports "widowed" as their legal marital status. - 2 report "divorced" as their legal marital status. - 1 reports "separated" as their legal marital status. "(Since domestic partnership is not logal in all US states, this was not an option to report) Parental Status - 10 of them report a parental status of at least 1 minor child - 6 ol them report a parental status of children over the age of 18 - 4 of them report that they are not legal parents of any children (minor or adult)