Managing Diversity: The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Understanding and managing diversity: The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
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Title: Understanding and managing diversity: The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Introduction
Diversity in the workplace is basically understood as the various differences between people within a business organization. In general, diversity encompasses age, background, cognitive style, ethnic group, education, race, organizational function, tenure, gender, and personality (Woodward, Vongswasdi & More, 2015). In essence, diversity does not just involve how people in the company see themselves, but also how they see other people. The selected organization whose website has diversity-related material is The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. This report assesses how accessible diversity-related material is on the website of this selected organization. The report also evaluates the usefulness of the diversity information to the organization’s stakeholders, the appropriateness of the graphic material and photographs which relate to diversity, and highlights any diversity awards listed on the website.
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Accessibility of diversity-related material
Diversity of the workforce could greatly benefit an organization by bringing about positive work outcomes when the organization values and appreciates diverse employees and treats each of them equally and fairly (Phillips, 2014; Woodward, Vongswasdi & More, 2015).
Direct Link
The website of this healthcare organization has a direct link from the home page. The link is titled Employee Diversity and Inclusion and when the site visitor clicks on it, he or she is redirected to the webpage with the same title. On this webpage – Employee Diversity and Inclusion webpage –, it is stated that their differences are what actually makes this hospital unique (The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, 2015).
Search results
When searching for diversity-related material on the diversity webpage of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, the search results that come up include the following: commitment to diversity, inclusion, diversity, employee diversity and inclusion, diversity and inclusion initiatives, and celebrating cultural diversity (The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, 2015).
Primary dimensions
Primary dimensions of diversity basically refer to the dimensions that exert primary influences on people’s identities (Cui et al., 2015). In the website of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, the primary dimensions of diversity which are apparent include the following: race, age, socio-economic background, gender, sexual orientation, disability, color, and ethnicity. As demonstrated in its diversity webpage, this healthcare organization does not discriminate its customers/patients basing upon the aforementioned primary dimensions of diversity (The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, 2015).
Secondary dimensions
Secondary dimensions of diversity are those exerting a more variable influence on personal identity and, as Phillips (2014) pointed out, they actually add a more subtle richness to the primary dimensions. As illustrated in its diversity webpage, t...