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| Diversity! in the Workplace is the property of Quasarts Communications, 15 D'Arcy Street, suite 5, Perth Ontario K7H 2T9 Email quasarts@sympatico.ca |
| The Diversity! in the Workplace website and identity was created and developed by Styllautus. Visit: www.styllautus.com |
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| TALK ENGLISH CAFÉ Some of the ACCES centres see 30 to 40 people dropping in for the express purpose of developing soft skills such as small talk, client and co-worker relations, teamwork and the nuances of workplace culture. Lead by an ESL teacher, the exercise, says Dhiman, is “about language, but it’s way more than that.” It’s about learning those fundamental communication skills needed to succeed in the Canadian workplace...
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| ETC global news briefs |
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Canada
A report released by The Diversity Institute at Ryerson University has revealed that only 14% of visible minorities are leading organizations in the Greater Toronto Area, compared to 49.5% of the area population and up just marginally from last year. DiverseCity Counts: A Snapshot of Diverse Leadership in the Greater Toronto Area tracked 3348 leaders across the corporate, public, elected, education and non-profit sectors. Government agencies took the lead spot in terms of diverse management, followed by education and the corporate sector bringing up the rear. To read the report, click here...
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The Ontario Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration has named the recipients of the 2010 Newcomer Champion Award. They are: Michel Bencini, Toronto, Ghina Al-Sewaidi, first Iraqi female lawyer in Canada, Bishops' High School Alumni Association, Eileen Clinton, Guelph, Sun Jung, Chatham, Maureen Killoran, Ottawa, KCWA Family and Social Services, Sharon Newmaster, Kitchener, Amenda Ng, Guelph, Noor Mohamed Mohamed Nizam, Hamilton, North Bay Newcomer Network, Sevim Onen, Toronto, and Adilla Saloojee, St. Catharines.
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| POV Religion in the Workplace |
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I admit it, when it comes to talking about religion in the workplace, I want to run! I try to avoid any discussions about religion in any public sphere because the reality is that there’s no other topic that creates so much passion, anger and controversy. Whenever I, or one of my workshop participants, raise the issue inevitably there is dead silence. What I have come to realize is that this silence doesn’t mean people are not interested in talking about it – quite the contrary. We have so many questions about other people’s beliefs and the reality is that accommodating this type of diversity in the workplace makes a lot of people nervous, and with good reason.
Let’s face it, if you have been living, like me, in a conservative primarily British Protestant city all of your life, there is a good chance that you... [ read more ] |
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Make diversity work: how to bridge differences
BY DANIEL SCHROEDER
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| Throughout our history, our nation has experienced periodic shifting of the workforce. In the past decade, this has been substantially more dramatic.
Non-Hispanic whites are now – for the first time – the minority population in the 100 largest U.S. cities. Nearly half of the nation’s new workers are made up of those traditionally considered minorities. Women will represent half of the U.S. workforce in the very near future. Organizations that have invested in diversity initiatives targeting women will benefit in the not too distant future for having done so. But there is more here than meets the eye. Workforce demographics, the census, our common sense, and personal experiences are all communicating a new agenda for the American workplace. Diversity is no longer about gender and race. It’s also about age, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disabilities, religion, and much more... [ read more ] |
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