Griffin Management 7e: Self-Assessments





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Management , Seventh Edition
Ricky W. Griffin - Texas A&M University

Self-Assessments

Managing Diversity

Introduction: As an organization becomes more diverse, managing diversity takes on increasing importance. The following assessment surveys your beliefs and values about the management of diversity.

Instructions: You will agree with some of the statements and disagree with others. In some cases, making a decision may be difficult, but you should force a choice. Record your answers next to each statement according to the following scale:

+2 = Strongly Agree
+1 = Somewhat Agree
-1 = Somewhat Disagree
-2 = Strongly Disagree

1.	Managing diversity means approaching diversity at three levels simultaneously: individual, interpersonal, and organizational.
	Strongly Agree +2 +1 -1 -2 Strongly Disagree

2.	Managing diversity is synonomous with civil rights.
	Strongly Agree +2 +1 -1 -2 Strongly Disagree

3.	Managing diversity involves a management perspective.
	Strongly Agree +2 +1 -1 -2 Strongly Disagree

4.	Managing diversity is a new term for what used to be called equal employment opportunity programs.
	Strongly Agree +2 +1 -1 -2 Strongly Disagree

5.	Managing diversity requires managers to spend less time "doing" work and more time enabling employees to do the work.
	Strongly Agree +2 +1 -1 -2 Strongly Disagree

6.	Managing diversity should be done because of all the wrongs done to minorities throughout the years.
	Strongly Agree +2 +1 -1 -2 Strongly Disagree

7.	Managing diversity defines diversity broadly, going beyond race and gender.
	Strongly Agree +2 +1 -1 -2 Strongly Disagree

8.	Managing diversity is the same thing as affirmative action.
	Strongly Agree +2 +1 -1 -2 Strongly Disagree

9.	Managing diversity assumes that adaptation is a mutual process between the individual and the organization.
	Strongly Agree +2 +1 -1 -2 Strongly Disagree

10.	Managing diversity is synonomous with Women's Rights.
	Strongly Agree +2 +1 -1 -2 Strongly Disagree

11.	Managing diversity may take years to implement.
	Strongly Agree +2 +1 -1 -2 Strongly Disagree

12.	Managing diversity is required by federal legislation.
	Strongly Agree +2 +1 -1 -2 Strongly Disagree

13.	Managing diversity means getting from employees not only everything you have a right to expect, but everything they have to offer.
	Strongly Agree +2 +1 -1 -2 Strongly Disagree

14.	Managing diversity is a program or an orchestrated set of actions to "do" something.
	Strongly Agree +2 +1 -1 -2 Strongly Disagree

Source: Adapted from Beyond Race and Gender (New York:AMACOM, a division of American Management Association, 135 West 50th Street, New York, New York 10020) by R. Roosevelt Thomas, Jr. pp. 326-327. Copyright 1991 by R. Roosevelt Thomas, Jr.