Dimensions of Diversity Concepts

Running Head: Diversity Concept Worksheet

Diversity Concept Worksheet

University of Phoenix

Facilitator, Herbert Perer, PhD

December 13, 2010

Diversity Concepts Worksheet

|Concept |Application of Concept in your personal and/or professional life |Reference to Concept in Reading |

|Enculturation |As a manager, I experience people who’ve grown up quite differently from |“Each of us grows up in the presence |

|(Dimensions of Diversity) |me, especially moving from the city (near Denver, Colorado) to a very |of a set of rules and expectations |

| |rural area in Kansas. In my current job position, I supervise very blue |transmitted across generations”. |

| |collar employees in the housekeeping, dietary and maintenance departments.|(Kottak and Kozaitis, 2003. p. 15). |

| |I find that many of these employees have learned different values and | |

| |morals than I have. Several employees are the first in their families to | |

| |have jobs and not be in the welfare system. They lack the ability to set | |

| |goals for themselves and also take responsibility for their actions and | |

| |often make the same mistakes or show self defeating behaviors multiple | |

| |times. I can see that it is difficult for people of these families to | |

| |learn to break the molds from living on social programs to being self | |

| |sufficient....