Diversity in Organizations
QUESTION 1
The blending of cultures is becoming increasingly prevalent as individuals of different races or cultures intermarry. As a manager, how would you address an individual's cultural needs that are broad-based across several different cultures? Also, how would you address integration into the organizational culture to prevent any misconceptions in the workplace?
Your response must be at least 500 words in length.
QUESTION 2
Fig Technologies has acquired a network services firm that has several Native American workers. The events team in the local office is putting together the calendar of events for the next year. How do you educate, inform, and assimilate Native American culture and traditions into a self-described White Anglo-Saxon Protestant workplace environment?
Sample Solution
ccording to the Education Act, 1996, a child has special educational needs (herein after will be referred as SEN) if there is a learning hardship which needs supply of special educational care to him on the basis of his learning difficulty. For the purposes of SEN, a child includes any individual who is under the age of nineteen who is a registered student at a School in UK. Under section 323 of the Education Act (1996), a local authority from the local Council may issue a Statement of Educational Needs. This is a legal document which delineates about SEN of the child and explains how these requirements will be met with. The term SEN was first introduced by the Warnock Report of the late 1970s. Earlier, disabled students who needed special education were taken care of by 1944 Education Act where it stipulated ten categories for identification of children with SEN.
The following were the definition of ‘handicap’ given by the 1944 Education Act.
- Partially sighted/Blind
- Delicate
- Deaf
- Educationally subnormal
- Diabetic
- Epileptic
- Physically handicapped
- Epileptic
- Speech defect
- Mal adjusted