Diversity Case Study

Creating Organizational Initiatives to Appreciate Diversity and Leverage Human Potential

Changing a work place culture and maintain diversity in our organization would be the most critical in keeping the momentum of the culture. Advantages of a diverse environment outweigh the disadvantages, from lawsuits to establishing a competitive edge in the market. Working in an environment that has a “good–old-boy” culture may have been the in-thing in the 50’s. However, diversity in the work place today drives competitiveness by blending ideas from mingling genders, creeds, race, and age, to the global market of the 21st century. Challenges face our management today from attempting to design a culture of interconnected teams. Generational diversity

Management of today is faced with challenges to exploit their workforce into a cash cow of untapped and unlimited resources in diversity and inclusion as in the paradigms in “True to myself” case and the “good-old-boy” team environment. Organizations ability to restructure and leverage resources at its disposal is not within grasp of managements conceptions. Today being an advanced economy, the “good-old-boy” organizations exercise, and continue to support philosophies, to exploit top-down authority, standardization, specialism, probability, and zabernism as their mode of control of profit to the stakeholder

This irrational belief system of this oil company stereotyped Alex’s Bale into her roll of being subservient and her undisguised cynicism based on the negative connotation of the group. Bale has taken on this roll so long, changing her name and even her handshake was painful to Ethney Gentry. It is showing the level of adapting, this altered identity, to not only keep her job, but so ingrained that she is giving, in her mind, sound advice. She says to, “not be eager with ideas or opinions”, as to help Gentry fit in as one of the “good-old-boys” preconception of a stereotypical identity for her successful carrier at the oil company (Daft, 2014, p.430). The “good-old-boys” adapted Bale into being part of the problem, and carrying on the cynical industrial era methods. This vile environment, filled with discrimination, left Gentry willing to get up and walk out, conflicting to the lifelong ambition to belong to a “good-old-boy”