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Prejudice
There are several ways that I can combat prejudice in the workplace. The first is by not engaging in it myself. This seems almost self-explanatory, but the truth is that we are all human beings and sometimes you have subtle or unconscious biases. Self-awareness is the first step to improving oneself. Further, if I am to have any further influence on others, I should probably be well aware of who I am, and if I have any biases or things like that. You've got to have a little bit of humility in order to be a teacher to others, especially when they are your peers. This is called Level 5 leadership (Collins, 2005).
The second way that I can combat prejudice in the workplace is by taking a leadership role among my peers. This is the personal level of combatting prejudice, and it involves insuring that others around me are not engaging in those sorts of bad attitudes and habits that create a hostile or negative work environment. Leveraging differences is something that creates the conditions...
As a leader, my role would be to understand what each team member brings to the table, even if we have people who cannot be trusted to bring coffee to the table, let alone anything else. Such determinations must be made on the basis of merit, however, not physical traits.
Bruner (2012) notes that many leaders do not really understand what diversity is, or how it can benefit their organizations. He suggests that leaders need to take a specific outlook towards diversity, for example viewing diversity as an opportunity to be seized. Such an approach needs to be taken at the leadership level, because that is where you are showing others how it should be done. There is definitely a cultural framing in many organizations that diversity is something to be solved and Bruner's point is that such an approach is ultimately going to get in the way of properly leveraging diverse capabilities that a diverse group has. So the mindset needs to change, and one of…
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Bruner, B. (2012). Leveraging difference makes a competitive difference. Darden. Retrieved February 17, 2014 from https://blogs.darden.virginia.edu/deansblog/2012/03/leveraging-difference-makes-a-competitive-difference/
Clawson, J. (2008). Prejudice in organizations. Darden.
Collins, J. (2005). Level 5 leadership: The triumph of humility and fierce resolve. Harvard Business Review. Retrieved February 17, 2014 from http://hbr.org/2005/07/level-5-leadership-the-triumph-of-humility-and-fierce-resolve/ar/1
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Prejudice If you walk in to a bookstore or browse online you will find hundreds, in fact thousands, of essays, books, articles, and speeches about prejudice. Obviously, most of them are against prejudice and before you begin reading any of them, let me tell you that chances are good that they will contain phrases like "don't have prejudice against people," "prejudice results in downfall" or "prejudice is a bad thing,."