Diversity

Introduction

Diversity relates to gender, age, language, ethnicity, cultural background, disability, sexual orientation or religious belief. Diversity also refers to the myriad ways we are different in other respects such as educational level, job function, socio-economic background, personality profile, geographic location, marital status and whether or not one has family.

I have taken the opportunity to explain my perception of age, gender, personality and ethnic types of diversity and demographic characteristics and differences.

Age Characteristics

With the fact that today’s workplace has individuals that vary in age, most employees can be placed into one of 4 categories: Mature, Baby Boomer, Generation X’ers and Millenials. The members of each group, based on age, are generally easy to identify; however definitely have different characteristics.

The Mature group consists of people born prior to 1946. Generally speaking, members