assimilation

Examples of assimilation in the following topics:

• Barriers to Organizational Diversity

  • Companies seeking a diverse workforce face issues of assimilation into the majority group and wage equality for minorities.
  • The challenges of assimilating a large workforce can be summarized as difficulties in communication and resistance to change from dominant groups.
  • Resistance to change is a slightly different barrier to assimilating more diversity in work groups, as it pertains more to the momentum of company culture.
  • Arguably the largest downside of assimilation, however, is that when diverse employees do most of the acclimating, the value of having varying perspectives is diminished.
  • Understanding the barriers to effectively assimilating, with a particular focus on communication and avoiding group biases, is a critical step in creating a more conducive environment.

• The Challenge of Diversity

  • Globalization demands a diverse workforce, and assimilating varying cultures, genders, ages, and dispositions is of high value.
  • This hegemony can create tension between different groups, ultimately resulting in the smaller groups moving towards the culture of the larger ones to close the dissonance, a practice called assimilation.
  • Assimilation should be a shared responsibility, not simply assumed by those in the minority group.
  • Groupthink will often result in the assimilation of dissenting perspectives.
  • The goal for management is to ensure everyone is working to assimilate to everyone else in a balanced and effective manner that harvests differences rather than smoothing them over.t

• The Mission Statement

  • To be truly effective, an organizational mission statement must be assimilated into the organization's culture (as the theory states).