What diversity stands for?
The real definition of diversity, for me, is simply Valuing Differences. Nevertheless, it has often proven complicated to understand and implement. Modern, especially western management has largely been rooted in Aristotelian binary logic i.e. good and bad, right and wrong, acceptable and unacceptable, black and white. This has left us to segment and label people into these ‘okay’ and ‘not okay’ categories. This is the birth of a painful psychology; stereotyping i.e. commonly held beliefs about mutually exclusive groups and defining narrow, restrictive boundaries of acceptance around them. E.g. [gender]: men are better at mathematical science while women excel at softer arts, [age]; grey haired, 50+ men make better boardroom consultants than their younger counterparts. But that’s not all. While age, gender, race and religion are conscious categories of differences (they are talked about), there are sub-conscious categories like background, culture, nationality, education, social class
