3 Types of Diversity You Need To Understand To Create Inclusion

You can’t always tell what people mean when they talk about Diversity.

Find out the 3 types of Diversity you need to understand to create inclusion

Here are some key messages from this episode

  • The confusion caused by people talking about Diversity
  • 3 Types of Diversity You Need To Understand
  • Why we don’t talk about Equality and much much more

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Here are some key takeaways from this episode

Diversity as a management approach recognises and values differences

“Here we define diversity as a management approach that recognises that as individuals we have differences, AND that there is value in the differences that we have”

Surface level diversity is concerned with demographic differences

Surface level diversity typically refers to demographic differences, some of these may be detectable but others are not, common examples include age, gender, ethnicity, ability, now you may think that I’m talking about physical differences that we have but that’s not true.”

Deep level diversity is concerned with differences in beliefs, attitudes and ways of thinking

“deep level diversity refers to individual differences that may be difficult to support, they are called deep level because they may not be observable and refer to characteristics within us: our beliefs, our attitudes, our personalities, our way of thinking”

Here are some resources so you can go deeper

Surface‐ and deep‐level diversity in workgroups: examining the moderating effects of team orientation and team process on relationship conflict

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