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Differences and Diversity Issues: Select...

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Differences and Diversity Issues: Selected Vignettes

Freeman, R. Edward; Parmar, Bidhan L.; Dresnick, Jordan; Mead, Jenny

E-0322 | Published July 17, 2008 | 9 pages Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

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In an ever-changing world, certain topics?such as sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, and gender?still are hot-button items for many people. This series of vignettes covers many diversity topics, primarily in the workplace, and should promote engaging and intense debate. In reading them, students should try to see each vignette from the different perspectives presented.

To have students look at and discuss issues of diversity and to discuss the various ways of dealing with complicated situations, particularly in the workplace. Issues of diversity—race, sexual orientation, and others—still exist in the 21st century, and students must learn how to think about these issues and how best to deal with them in the business world.