Stereotyping

Managing Diversity is about having the management skill to allow different perspectives to improve the quality of decisions & processes. It is about managing people who are not like you and who also do not aspire to be like you

Sounds like these people have too much attitude ..huh!  who are they anyway

  Well this is where open-mindedness comes in; diversification comes in. Thereby allowing prevention of classification of certain people in certain categories – also known as StereoTyping.

There is positive stereotyping & there is negative stereotyping. This depends on which ‘type’ of group one has placed a person into, depending on one’s ‘perspective’ of the other person. It can also be a mix of good & bad wherein certain positive & certain negative traits are ‘expected’ according to the classification.

Stereotyping is easy to generate and often it meets with a lot of agreement from oneself and/or others hence making it very difficult to change because it is accepted as the truth with very less evidence supporting it. Stereotyping overemphasizes the similarities between people who are seen to belong to the same group while under-emphasizing the similarities of people in different groups.

So keep an open mind about the people you know & give everyone a fair chance…You never know what category you might have been placed into