Enterprise week week 8
I attended a few lecture in enterprise week but amongst all of them I just found the most interesting one is ‘’It doesn’t matter if you’re black or you’re white (Michael Jackson)’’.
This event was held at Bucks New University in the North wing building in room N4.06 at 12:00pm. This event was carried out by Arrol Toplin who Is a solicitor and a Law teacher at Bucks New University and the second lecturer was Seth Gyekye who is also tutor for psychology at Bucks. This event went for an hour with its objective of telling that how important diversity is to an organisation and in how many ways it useful.
It was started by Arrol Toplin who laid great emphasis on advantages and disadvantages of diversity. Arrol told the audience how diversity increases the range of skills and vision. E.g have different perspective of looking into the given situation. Diversity is an involvement with the wider community and a better understanding of society. Furthermore he told how top 10 law firms are working together to retain on the top. At the end Arrol told about the countries that refuse to agree with diversity which include South Africa, Northern Ireland pre and post 1969 and Zimbabwe that how racist they are towards white. Later Gyekye took over the lecture stating many different definitions of diversity. Including which were: Diversity can be differences in race, heritage, customs, belief systems, physical appearance, mental capabilities, etc.
Diversity means differences such as different religious beliefs, different cultural traditions, music, art, dancing etc
Diversity means, in the context of society, having a mixed community of people from all walks of life. When people talk about diversity and having a diverse community, they generally mean that they want to see all minority groups represented in that community.
Diversity means differences such as different religious beliefs, different cultural traditions, music, art, dancing etc
Diversity means, in the context of society, having a mixed community of people from all walks of life. When people talk about diversity and having a diverse community, they generally mean that they want to see all minority groups represented in that community.
Audience was informed that diversity is a challenging of meeting the needs of a culturally diverse workforce and Gyekye even said that diversity is almost as diverse as the subject itself. Gyekye further linked many advantages of diversity that it increases creativity and stronger innovative abilities as well as it also maximises workers’ productivity. Diversity has brought a drastic change in international business adventures due to increase in intercultural competence. At the end he closed up with a few solutions to diversity issues and by the sentence picked from IBM company ‘’None of us is as strong as all of us’’.
I took the benefit of learning the factors of diversity that how it increases productivity and competition amongst employees which is beneficial to the employer as it would increase in rate of generation of new idea’s as different minds have different perspectives so as UK is a country that has mixed population from all over the world but still there are few societies in UK that do not accept others as part of them so diversity is what breaks away all such barriers and makes a step near to success for organisation.
Reasonable review of events but could have been more reflective on how it impacted on you
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