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A 4 page paper assessing the role of leadership in promoting cultural diversity. The position of this paper is that many of today's organizations pursue greater cultural diversity but often do so mechanically from duty and matters of law rather than from an awareness of the improvement that cultural diversity can bring to the organization and that true benefits are realized only in an atmosphere of clear and dedicated leadership. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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the 1980s detergent manufacturers inundated consumers with claims that they were "phosphate free." Of course they were, phosphorous had been rejected from laundry detergent by law. Mobil trash
bags were touted as being biodegradable - in sunlight, which typically is in short supply in the graveyard of a landfill. These and
similar practices came to be referred to as "green washing," in the same way that current lip service to cultural diversity in the workplace is called white washing. The
position of this paper is that many of todays organizations pursue greater cultural diversity but often do so mechanically from duty and matters of law rather than from an awareness
of the improvement that cultural diversity can bring to the organization and that true benefits are realized only in an atmosphere of clear and dedicated leadership. Articles
In 2002, DiversityInc.com issued a "Baloney Alert" - the result of setting off the organizations "Baloney Meter" designed for detecting corporate lip service for workplace diversity.
The object of the 2002 "Baloney Alert" was none other than Cingular Wireless. The trigger event was the companys disallowance of any workplace recognition of Black History Month
2001 at its Fayetteville, North Carolina call center (Hold the Phone, 2002). DiversityInc Magazine rejects euphemism, white washing and all forms of
excuses in matters related to enhancing workplace diversity. DiversityInc has no gentle spirit when castigating an organization for only going through the motions, which makes its April 2006 announcement
of Cingular Wireless making its top ten list of those organizations most committed to true diversity nothing short of surprising (Ang, 2006). The
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