Paul PelletierProject management key note speaker, author, corporate lawyer, and executive| Paul Pelletier Consulting Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
The Middle East's Gulf Business Magazine published an article I wrote on Workplace Happiness: Using Diversity to Create Community. It applies to the project management profession and teams. I'd like to hear your thoughts.
Ed Tsyitee JrConsultant | Consultant Tucson, Az, United States
Excellent article. Diversity intelligence-something I've never heard of before.
I think, though, that a diverse workplace is strongly influenced by culture-both by society and workplace. That influence is what makes it challenging to implement this diversity.
I'm going to share this with my network on Twitter. Saving Changes...
Paul PelletierProject management key note speaker, author, corporate lawyer, and executive| Paul Pelletier Consulting Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Thank you for your feedback Ed. There is no question that society and the workplace culture itself can be a challenge. Nonetheless, I believe that real leaders see that the return on investment in improving diversity intelligence is huge. I appreciate you sharing it with your network! Thank you.
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Mar 27, 2017 6:11 PM
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You're welcome!
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Ed Tsyitee JrConsultant | Consultant Tucson, Az, United States
Mar 27, 2017 4:28 PM
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Thank you for your feedback Ed. There is no question that society and the workplace culture itself can be a challenge. Nonetheless, I believe that real leaders see that the return on investment in improving diversity intelligence is huge. I appreciate you sharing it with your network! Thank you.
You're welcome! Saving Changes...
Sergio Luis ConteHelping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based OrganizationsBuenos Aires, Argentina
I hope one time people that publish this type of useless things will think about the world does not end in the country where they live. When that will happend then it will be great for all of us. This type of things is to justify the lack of something (diversity this time) into the proper country or organization. Saving Changes...
Paul PelletierProject management key note speaker, author, corporate lawyer, and executive| Paul Pelletier Consulting Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Sergio - I respectfully disagree with your point.
The article is published in the Middle East's most prominent business magazine and reflects a region-wide effort to improve. it is neither meant for a country nor an organization - it addresses a challenge that an entire region is addressing. It isn't justifying a lack of anything - on the contrary, it acknowledges diversity is important and impacts workplace culture.
Each country and region has things that it lacks and things it has in abundance. How is it "useless" for regions, countries or organizations to acknowledge there is room to mature or improve awareness.
As a side note, Pepsi Co, your own organization has made a significant global investment in diversity and inclusion programs. I highly doubt that Pepsi Co would think that diversity is useless or organizationally unimportant. Saving Changes...
Sergio Luis ConteHelping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based OrganizationsBuenos Aires, Argentina
Paul, you have to read my comment. I never said that diversity is useless. I live in a country where diversity is a must. What about you or your country?. That is what matters. And please, do not advise me about things I am living inside the organization I worked on. One of the reasons I am working in Pepsico is because the organization "lives" the defined values. And invesment does not matter. What matters is to live what you stated. That`s matter. Saving Changes...
Edward DanielsProject Manager| IndependentGlen Burnie, Md, United States
Paul, this is a nice article on a topic that is close to my heart. It reminds me of Workplace Organization Behavior, a class i took in grad school a while back. In my opinion, most people think diversity in the workplace is a must, but no one truly addresses diversity in the society. Diversity intelligence appears to be another fancy spin on an age-old issue.
Labels, i think is the culprit in the diversity discussions. Until labels are no longer a factor in human reasoning, i think diversity anywhere will remain an uphill battle. People tend to flock around like-minded individuals and people who look or talk like them. Organizations have to understand they cannot force people to think diversely, if they live in a closed-minded society.
I know it and you know it that most societies around the world are close-minded about one issue or the other. Whether we like it or not, these issues find their way into the workplace. Industrial and Organization Psychologists work, applying science to workplace issues facing individuals, teams, and organizations. Most organizations who are speaking on diversity don't have I/O psychologists working with them to use scientific methods to investigate issues of critical relevance to individuals, businesses, and society.
Diversity remains an issue that no one person has anwsers to but I hope we continue conversations until we all reach a consensus.
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1 reply by S Rajasekar
Mar 30, 2017 11:34 AM
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Agree with Edwards comments, but we will never come to consensus on this....because people never wanted to give their assumptions/feelings on this
Diversity intelligence is kind of broad concept to dig more in detail for the effective implementation of this concept into real work place. Your article is very informative and reminds me of importance of applying soft skills and of necessary frame in an organization.
Thank you very much. Saving Changes...
S RajasekarSenior Project Manager| AllscriptsBangalore, Karnataka, India
Mar 28, 2017 11:46 AM
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Paul, this is a nice article on a topic that is close to my heart. It reminds me of Workplace Organization Behavior, a class i took in grad school a while back. In my opinion, most people think diversity in the workplace is a must, but no one truly addresses diversity in the society. Diversity intelligence appears to be another fancy spin on an age-old issue.
Labels, i think is the culprit in the diversity discussions. Until labels are no longer a factor in human reasoning, i think diversity anywhere will remain an uphill battle. People tend to flock around like-minded individuals and people who look or talk like them. Organizations have to understand they cannot force people to think diversely, if they live in a closed-minded society.
I know it and you know it that most societies around the world are close-minded about one issue or the other. Whether we like it or not, these issues find their way into the workplace. Industrial and Organization Psychologists work, applying science to workplace issues facing individuals, teams, and organizations. Most organizations who are speaking on diversity don't have I/O psychologists working with them to use scientific methods to investigate issues of critical relevance to individuals, businesses, and society.
Diversity remains an issue that no one person has anwsers to but I hope we continue conversations until we all reach a consensus.
Agree with Edwards comments, but we will never come to consensus on this....because people never wanted to give their assumptions/feelings on this Saving Changes...
LORI WILSONRETIRED - Technical Project Manager| RETIRED - LifePoint HealthClarkston, Wa, United States
Hello Paul: Diversity and happiness at work at very important issues and as I read my peers comments about your article, I am surprised these issues are so controversial. What you wrote in your article is true and correct. We are all different from each other - and we can use all our differences, all our perspectives to have improved project success. Thank you for sharing and for posting this discussion thread. Saving Changes...
