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    The document discusses diversity and Marilyn Loden's diversity wheel model. It defines diversity as understanding individuals' uniqueness and differences while promoting acceptance and respect. Loden created the diversity wheel model to help people better understand how group-based social identities influence diversity. The wheel includes primary dimensions like age, gender, race that shape self-identity and secondary dimensions like education, income that further impact social identity. Loden updated the model over time to be more inclusive in diversity discussions globally.

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    The document discusses diversity and Marilyn Loden's diversity wheel model. It defines diversity as understanding individuals' uniqueness and differences while promoting acceptance and respect. Loden created the diversity wheel model to help people better understand how group-based social identities influence diversity. The wheel includes primary dimensions like age, gender, race that shape self-identity and secondary dimensions like education, income that further impact social identity. Loden updated the model over time to be more inclusive in diversity discussions globally.

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    The document discusses diversity and Marilyn Loden's diversity wheel model. It defines diversity as understanding individuals' uniqueness and differences while promoting acceptance and respect. Loden created the diversity wheel model to help people better understand how group-based social identities influence diversity. The wheel includes primary dimensions like age, gender, race that shape self-identity and secondary dimensions like education, income that further impact social identity. Loden updated the model over time to be more inclusive in diversity discussions globally.

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    WHAT IS DIVERSITY?

    • IT MEANS UNDERSTANDING THAT EACH INDIVIDUAL IS


    UNIQUE, & RECOGNIZING OUR INDIVIDUAL
    DIFFERENCES.

    • THE CONCEPT OF DIVERSITY ENCOMPASSES


    ACCEPTANCE & RESPECT.
    • Diversity is important because
    our country, workplaces, and
    schools increasingly consist of
    various cultural, racial, and
    ethnic groups.
    IT HELPS DISPEL NEGATIVE
    STEREOTYPES AND PERSONAL BIASES
    ABOUT DIFFERENT GROUPS. IN ADDITION,
    CULTURAL DIVERSITY HELPS US
    RECOGNIZE AND RESPECT “WAYS OF
    BEING” THAT ARE NOT NECESSARILY OUR
    OWN.
    WHO IS LODEN?
    MARILYN LODEN
    • Marilyn Loden is an American writer, management
    consultant, and diversity advocate who created the
    phrase "glass ceiling"

    • Marilyn Loden, the creator of the model, saw the need for
    a tool that would help people better understand how
    group-based differences contribute to people’s social
    identities.
    “I WANTED TO IDENTIFY THE DIFFERENCES THAT MAKE
    A MAJOR DIFFERENCES,” SHE EXPLAINS, “TO SHOW
    WHICH DIMENSION OF DIVERSITY ARE IMPORTANT IN
    PEOPLE’S LIVES, ACKNOWLEDGE THEIR POWER SO
    THAT PEOPLE WHO WANTED TO TALK ABOUT THEM
    WOULD BE SUPPORTED BY THE MODEL.”
    WHY A NEW PLAN? WHY NOW?

    Now, almost 20 years later, the global context for


    business and the workplace has become
    much more clear, and diversity right along with
    it.
    “I WOULD LIKE (THE MODEL) TO BE PART OF DIVERSITY
    DISCUSSIONS IN WHICH PEOPLE OUTSIDE THE UNITED
    STATES ALSO PARTICIPATE. THIS LAST ROUND OF
    CHANGES WAS MY ATTEMPT TO PROVIDE A MORE
    INCLUSIVE STARTING POINT FOR THE CONVERSATION”
    SHE EXPLAINS.
    The original version of the Diversity Wheel appeared in Marilyn
    Loden and Judy Rosener’s book ,

    Workforce Americal Managing Employee Diversity as a


    Vital Resource ( Irwin Publishing , 1991).
    A second version was published in Loden’s
    1996 book ,

    Implementing Diversity (Irwin


    Publishing)
    In this version Loden added four identifiers to
    the secondary circle :

    • First Language
    • Family Status
    • Work Style
    • Comuunication Style
    First Language
    was the only modification that
    was not included in the original
    model.
    Lodens depection of important group-
    based differences was the diversity
    wheel, A model that pointed to what
    is core to our social identities, the
    ways in which people derived a
    sense of self when identifying with
    certain groups.
    The wheel consists of
    what she called primary
    or core and secondary
    dimensions of diversity.
    Six primary dimensions that help shape our basic self – image and
    our woldviews:

    * Age
    * Ethnicity
    * Gender
    * Physical abilities / qualities
    * Race
    * Sexual Orientation
    In the original model , the secondary dimentions included:

    • Educational Background
    • Income
    • Marital Status
    • Work experience
    • Military experience
    • Religion
    • Geographic location.

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