Multicultural Workplace Diversity Inclusion Strategies

The world is getting more diverse, and people of different cultural backgrounds interact. It is becoming a requirement for most jobs to have a diverse work team and create a safe work environment that caters to every person\\\\\\\'s cultural orientation. The United States\\\\\\\' current social-political scene promotes social justice for everyone irrespective of gender, sex, sexual orientation, and race. To prevent conflict among the groups, there are four strategies groups might use to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion. These strategies are; acknowledging power and culture in a workplace, developing multicultural competencies, and creating brave and humanizing workspaces.

Having been brought up in North Carolina, I would describe my cultural background as Christian and partly conservative. My conservative beliefs and attitudes are likely to interfere with my ability to work in a diverse group. My ideas include traditional family values, reserved issues about sex and morality, my belief in Christianity, and pro-life. I grew up with these beliefs and still adhere to might conflict with liberal ideas about reproductive rights and same-sex marriage. These differences in beliefs and ideologies can cause conflicts in the workplace. How a person communicates in a workplace can also elicit some bias, a sense of privilege, and ignorance(Atieno et al.,2016). Another cause of conflict is attribution, where people in a workplace link a person\\\\\\\'s behavior by their personality.

Three culturally relevant strategies can promote inclusion in a diverse workplace. The first is acknowledging that power and culture exist in the workplace, enabling group members to enter a team knowing they will expect people with different beliefs and ideologies. The following strategy is to develop social justice and multicultural capacity, which engages the workers to create multicultural and social justice counseling proficiencies (Lorraine et al., 2019). A workplace should be accommodative to all people; more young people are coming out as members of the LGBTQ community, signifying that sooner, most workplaces will be more diverse in terms of sexual orientation (Ali & Lambie, 2019). Group workers should create humanizing spaces to express themselves without fear of judgment or discrimination freely.

In conclusion, a workplace should be inclusive to every person regardless of their cultural orientation or sexuality. Having a cohesive group in the workplace who work together irrespective of their differences. A harmonious group can be created by acknowledging the power and culture in a workplace, developing multicultural competencies, and creating brave and humanizing workspaces.