What is the role of the employee in managing diversity?
Every employee is responsible for focusing on inclusion, and appropriate and supportive workplace behavior. Each employee should value all the differences within his/her respective organization as the industry at large. We should learn to acknowledge, accept and understand that similarities and differences do exist. Each employee can help create a positive work environment by identifying and working to change rigid practices that are exclusive of all employees and add no value, and by identifying behaviors and patterns of doing things, whether are conscious or unconscious, that are exclusionary. Every employee affects organizational and industrial outcomes. With each employee working on managing diversity, our industry will move closer to a culture where all ideas and perspectives are considered in order to more effectively meet our mission.
