- It has become common today to overlook the experiences of minorities in the workplace, something Gundemir details in The Impact of Organizational Diversity Policies on Minority Employees’ Leadership Self-Perceptions and Goals. However overlooked, these issues are as prevelant as the actual need for diversity corporations now call for in the workplace.
I used the template in They Say, I Say that Graff and Birkenstein display as “It has become common today to dismiss ________.” I found this framing useful, because it’s more exciting than simply stating, “in this book *blank* says that *blank*”. Instead of this this overused way of framing common in high school English essays, the framing in TSIS does a better job of grabbing the audience’s attention and setting the tone for a less typical analysis we’re used to seeing. The framing I used not only introduces a section from the piece of writing, but brings a real world setting with it, using, “it has become common today to…”
2. Austin and Pisano and Gundemir’s ideas matter because they help piece together this bigger picture we have begun to discuss with diversity. They take different angles to what diversity means in the workplace. Diversity in the workplace has a ripple effect to both the success of the workplace and the outer sphere of society. Our readings have discussed how even in the earliest stages of diversity discussions with gifted programs in elementary schools, the lack of diversity has a ripple effect to the workplaces much further beyond that. A lack of diversity at the earliest level ripples into high school, college and eventually the workforce. Their ideas matter because they show once again the effect diverse people and ideas have on a institution, corporation or workforce. The impact of new and different ideas and techniques shows us again and again what diversity can do to help the success of any group.