Differences involve opinions, ideas, options, methods, skills, race, gender, jobs, age, culture, interpretation, values, and environment.
Identify a strategy a manager can implement to benefit from the differences in a group and ensure differences will not escalate.
(Escalating Intensity: Awareness of differences, discomfort, annoyance, irritation, heightened tension, frustration, open disagreement, anger, hostility, conflict/war.)
Define the following two terms in the workplace, then examine how both can be achieved in the workplace through embracing and empowering individual uniqueness, and diversity.
Equality – the state of being equal, especially in status, rights, and opportunities.
Equity – the quality of being fair and impartial.