WK9

To prepare for this Assignment:

• Review the article “A Contingency Approach to Representative Bureaucracy: Power, Equal Opportunities and Diversity” in this week’s Learning Resources. Think about the link between diversity and representative bureaucracy in the workplace.         
• Review the article “The Ideal of Diversity in Organizations” in this week’s Learning Resources.
• Consider strategies for advancing diversity in the workplace. Pay particular attention to matters such as individual difference and equality as they relate to diversity in the workplace.
• Reflect on basic democratic principles and consider how they are related to diversity.
• Select at least two democratic principles that you think are promoted by diversity in the workplace and think about how diversity might or does promote them.

The Assignment (1–2 pages):

• Briefly describe the democratic principles that you selected.
• Explain how diversity relates to and promotes the democratic principles you selected.
• Based on your analysis, share insights and draw conclusions about how diversity relates to and promotes democratic principles in the workplace.