2024年3月9日发(作者：苏州疫情最新消息)

How Do You See Diversity?

As a manager, Tiffany is responsible for interviewing applicants for some of

the positions with her company .During one interview, she noticed that the

candidate never made direct eye contact. She was puzzled and somewhat

disappointed because she liked the individual otherwise.

He had a perfect resume and gave good responses to her questions, but the

fact that he never looked her in the eye said “untrustworthy,” so she decided to

offer the job to her second choice.

“It wasn’t until I attended a diversity workshop that I realized the person we

passed over was the perfect person,” Tiffany confesses. What she hadn’t known

at the time of the interview was that the candidate’s “different”

behavior was simply a cultural misunderstanding . He was an Asian-American

raised in a household where respect for those in authority was shown by

averting(避开) your eyes.

“I was just thrown off by the lack of ye contact; not realizing it was cultural,”

Tiffany says. “I missed out ,but will not miss that opportunity again.”

Many of us have had similar encounters with behaviors we perceive as

different. As the world becomes smaller and our workplaces more diverse, it is

becoming essential to expand our under-standing of others and to reexamine

some of our false assumptions .

Hire Advantage

At a time when hiring qualified people is becoming more difficult ,employers

who can eliminate invalid biases(偏爱) from the process have a distinct

advantage .My company, Mindsets LLC ,helps organizations and individuals see

their own blind spots . A real estate recruiter we worked with illustrates the positive

difference such training can make .

“During my Mindsets coaching session ,I was taught how to recruit a

diversified workforce. I recruited people from different cultures and skill sets .The

agents were able to utilize their full potential and experiences to build up the

company .When the real estate market began to change, it was because we had a

diverse agent pool that we were able to stay in the real estate market much longer

than others in the same profession.”

Blinded by Gender

Dale is an account executive who attended one of my workshops on

supervising a diverse workforce . “Through one of the sessions ,I discovered my

personal bias ,” he recalls . “I learned I had not been looking at a person as a

whole person , and being open to differences .” In his case , the blindness was not

about culture but rather gender.