Question

Diane and Clarke are two employees in an organization who recently started working together. Diane is an older, long-tenured woman raised in rural Kansas, who achieved her current level in the organization by starting as a high school graduate and working her way up the hierarchy. Clarke is a young, recently hired male college graduate with a business degree, raised in a Spanish-speaking neighborhood in Miami. However, both are deeply committed to their families, share a common way of thinking about important work problems, like to work collaboratively, and are interested in international assignments in the future. Which of the following describes the diversity between these two?

A) lateral-level diversity
B) deep-level diversity
C) surface-level diversity
D) individual-level diversity
E) hierarchical-level diversity

Answer 1

C) Surface-level diversity

Explanation:

It is also called demographic diversity, social category diversity, Bio demographic diversity, and observable individual differences refer to readily detectable attributes such as sex, age, gender, ethnicity, and marital status. Managing diversity is most of the important tasks and challenges for today's organization. As the nature of work shifted from being done by individuals to the self managing team manager and human resources and professional has focused on diversity.