Ethics of Diversity

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Ethics of Diversity

• Understanding
• others by
• understanding
• self. . .

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Program Goals

• To understand the relationship between
  ethics and diversity in the workplace
• To increase sensitivity and positive behavior
  toward diverse groups
• To improve the climate of diversity in the court
  system

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Definitions

• Ethics
• Culture
• Diversity
• Stereotyping
• Empathy
• Cross-cultural Communication

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Video

• Food for Thought

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What is Diversity?

• Recognizing the many types of differences in
  ourselves and in others

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Benefits of Diversity

• Provides opportunity to learn
• Improves end product
• Increases innovation-new ideas
• Provides different approaches
• Expands ability to communicate

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PREVENTING DISCRIMINATION

• Allow and respect differences
• Recognize needs of all people
• Appreciate contributions
• Confront your prejudice
• Trust be sensitive

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Confronting your biases

• Honestly evaluate your attitudes/biases
• Be open to change
• Treat each person with respect equality
• Learn to integrate not assimilate
• Recognize acknowledge needs of all
• Work together toward common goals

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To Build Relationship

• ASK YOURSELF
• What are this persons strengths?
• What stresses or annoys this person?
• How does this persons diversity contribute to
  our relationship?

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Fostering Diversity

• 1. Acknowledge your biases.
• 2. Be sensitive to people with different
  backgrounds and preferences.
• 3. Accept new ideas.
• 4. Keep an open mind to different approaches.

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BREAK
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Video Activity How diversity can help you on
the job?

• Break into small groups
• Interview each other to find out
• differences
• stresses that annoy
• how can differences
  help on the job
• Discuss findings

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Activity Labels

• Learn about how destructive labels can be
• Experience what verbalizing negative stereotypes
  is like
• Explore feelings and attitudes about court
  stereotypes

• Wear labels on back
• Talk with as many people as possible
• Do not identify label to the person with whom you
  are speaking
• Make stereotypic comments

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Process Labeling Activity
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Overcoming Stereotyping

• Awareness of your own stereotyping process
• Contact - allow your relationships with
  individuals of different groups to affect the way
  you think, feel, behave, and make decisions about
  people in that group. (Parker, Archer Scott)

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Moving from Individual Awareness to Action

• Cross-cultural Communication
• barriers
• facilitating multi cultural communication

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