Topic outline
- General
- Livelihood and Occupational diversity
- Challenges in Diversity management
Challenges in Diversity management
Challenges
One of the greatest challenges an organization has when trying to adopt a more inclusive environment is assimilation for any member outside of the dominant group. The interplay between power, ideology, and discursive acts which reinforce the hegemonic structure of organizations is the subject of much study. Everything from organizational symbols, rituals, and stories serve to maintain the position of power held by the dominant group.
- Ethinicity , Sects & Kinship in Social culture
- Benefits of Diversity at workplace
- Traditional Livelihood and Occupations
- SYLLABUS of the subject
SYLLABUS of the subject
- INDIA’S DIVERSITY AND BUSINESS
Objective: The objective of the paper is to understand the bases of India’s diversity and its linkages with the people, livelihood, occupational diversity and socio-economic challenges. Further, it aims at understanding the diversity and its implications for the business.
Unit I Recognizing, Accommodating and valuing diversity , Challenges and dilemmas posed by diversity and drive for homogenization; Sources of dilemma and tension—immigration, competition for limited resources; Regional bases of India’s diversity: regional approach to understanding diversity, in terms of India’s topography, drainage, soil, climate, natural vegetation, rural and urban settlements, Social diversity in India: Peopling , demography, languages, castes, ethnicity, religions, sects, family, kinship and social institutions; socio-cultural regions
Unit II People, Livelihood and Occupational Diversity, Region, occupation and employment, Linkages between Diversity and India’s Socio-economic challenges, Regional variations in terms of geographic and socio-economic factors- trends and, emerging options; economic inequalities and poverty, environmental degradation, and sustainable development;
Unit III Diversity and Business, Indian Consumers and marketing; Rural and Urban context, Diversity, manufacturing, industry and services; Diversity and Innovation; Workforce diversity and management
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