{"id":791,"date":"2019-04-22T20:17:28","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T20:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-organizationalbehavior\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=791"},"modified":"2024-04-24T22:56:02","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T22:56:02","slug":"introduction-to-contemporary-social-diversity","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-organizationalbehavior\/chapter\/introduction-to-contemporary-social-diversity\/","title":{"raw":"Introduction to Contemporary Social Diversity","rendered":"Introduction to Contemporary Social Diversity"},"content":{"raw":"<h2>What you'll learn to do:\u00a0Describe how contemporary organizations both benefit and struggle with diversity oriented themes and topics<\/h2>\r\nDiversity has been around since the beginning of time, however, the way society has dealt with diversity has changed. It has been proven that diverse companies are more successful in their output and profitability. However, many companies still struggle to develop and maintain a diverse work environment. So why is that?\r\n\r\nIn this section we will attempt to answer that question. We will do this by examining the benefits of social diversity and how it impacts a company\u2019s culture and profitability. We will also analyze current investigations and controversies around diversity. And finally, we will examine strategies companies can use to help foster and maintain diverse workplaces.","rendered":"<h2>What you&#8217;ll learn to do:\u00a0Describe how contemporary organizations both benefit and struggle with diversity oriented themes and topics<\/h2>\n<p>Diversity has been around since the beginning of time, however, the way society has dealt with diversity has changed. It has been proven that diverse companies are more successful in their output and profitability. However, many companies still struggle to develop and maintain a diverse work environment. So why is that?<\/p>\n<p>In this section we will attempt to answer that question. We will do this by examining the benefits of social diversity and how it impacts a company\u2019s culture and profitability. We will also analyze current investigations and controversies around diversity. And finally, we will examine strategies companies can use to help foster and maintain diverse workplaces.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-791\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Original<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Introduction to Contemporary Social Diversity. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Freedom Learning Group. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Lumen Learning. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":17,"menu_order":13,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"original\",\"description\":\"Introduction to Contemporary Social Diversity\",\"author\":\"Freedom Learning Group\",\"organization\":\"Lumen Learning\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"da80b5a3-8dcb-4327-8cfa-fdab46c649f7","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-791","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":23,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-organizationalbehavior\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-organizationalbehavior\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-organizationalbehavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-organizationalbehavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-organizationalbehavior\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":797,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-organizationalbehavior\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/791\/revisions\/797"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-organizationalbehavior\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/23"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-organizationalbehavior\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/791\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-organizationalbehavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-organizationalbehavior\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=791"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-organizationalbehavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=791"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-organizationalbehavior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}