CULTURAL DIVERSITY AWARENESS TRAINING

Cultural Diversity Awareness Training

Cultural Diversity Awareness Training

Introduction

Training to improve diversity competency involves a series of programs and activities that reveal similarities and differences among individuals and offer strategies for handling them. However, before any decisions are made concerning the planning and delivery of such training, it is important to define what an organization means by the term diversity. Diversity training may be narrowly focused on primary dimensions—characteristics trainees have no control over—such as age, race, ethnicity, and physical ability (Clements, 2005). Or such training can also include secondary dimensions—characteristics trainees have some control over—such as religious beliefs, marital ...