Mod3 Diversity

Pick either option 1 or 2:

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Choose one of the following two assignments to complete this week. Do not do both assignments. Identify your assignment choice in the title of your submission.

Option #1: Racial, Ethnic, and Cultural Prejudice in the Workplace

Race, ethnicity, and cultural background are identifiers of individuals. In any society, how we see ourselves and how others treat us depend on many factors. Most people have confronted prejudice based on these identifiers, by either personally experiencing discrimination or knowing someone who has. Beyond ensuring an organization’s compliance with the country’s anti-discrimination laws, it is incumbent upon leaders to support diversity in the workplace and to be culturally competent.

Instructions:

Write a paper in which you relate an experience with prejudice in the workplace. If you do not have such experience directly, you may base your paper on someone you know who has experienced discrimination, or on an actual case that occurred somewhere in the world. Address the following in your paper:

• Summarize the situation you are writing about; provide background information, such as how it happened, to whom it happened (you do not need to identify people by name), when it happened and where. Your goal is to demonstrate to the instructor your ability to assess how racial, ethnic, and/or cultural prejudices are expressed in the workplace.
• Explain the implications of the situation to the organization in terms of its stakeholders, its reputation, and its legal responsibilities. What laws, if any, were broken?
• Identify any negative effects of the discrimination issue on the morale and functioning of coworkers and employees.
• Describe three action steps that you, as a leader, would have taken to avoid the situation in the first place, as well as three actions steps you would have taken to handle the situation after it happened. Describe how you would have addressed “cultural competence” in both instances.

Paper Requirements:

• Using the CSU Global library as a source, provide two scholarly references. You may use the readings in the module.
• Your well-written paper must be 3-4 pages in length and follow the CSU Global Writing Center (Links to an external site.).

Review the grading rubric for this assignment, to understand exactly how you will be graded. Contact your instructor if you have questions about the assignment.

Option #2: Title VII and Race, Ethnicity, and Cultural Competence

Discrimination, in all its guises, undermines employee loyalty, lowers or destroys morale, and diminishes productivity and quality of work. For both ethical and business reasons, it is incumbent upon you, as a leader, to prevent and remedy discrimination in the workplace.

In this assignment, you will develop a persuasive slide or video presentation to educate fellow leaders on the need for cultural competency in an organization. (This can be a company for which you currently work or have worked for in the past, or another company that you researched that has 15 or more employees.)

Instructions

Address the following in your presentation:

• Appraise the level of racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity in the organization, particularly in relation to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the forms of discrimination it expressly prohibits.
• Describe a federal court case in which the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) sued a for-profit corporation for violating one form of discrimination covered under Title VII, which could also apply to your organization. Show why your organization could be culpable of legal action with regard to discrimination.
• Analyze a competitor of your organization with regard to its success in managing and promoting a diverse workforce according to Title VII. Compare and contrast the two organizations based on policies that (1) ignore or mishandle discrimination, and (2) prevent and remedy discrimination.
• Make suggestions for how your organization should move forward in educating employees about diversity and inclusion, and in implementing new policies.

Presentation Requirements:

• Your presentation should include 10-12 slides, or be a 2-3 minute video. Follow the CSU Global Writing Center (Links to an external site.).
• In a separate, one-page paper, be sure to include citations for all facts presented. You will need to upload this separately. If you choose to create slides, you may use PowerPoint or a web-based presentation tool, such as Prezi. Be sure to include the URL of your presentation when using Internet-based tools. Paste the URL into a Word document and upload it with your presentation.

Review the grading rubric for this assignment, to understand exactly how you will be graded. Contact your instructor if you have questions about the assignment.

Rubric

ORG555 Mod 3 CT