– Points up the importance of developing people in organizations to enhance diversity.
– Draws on two presentations to a conference on diversity at Middlesex University, London.
– Highlights the role mentoring can play, first to achieve access to graduate-employment opportunities in the public sector and secondly to enable people to work together effectively and harmoniously in teams with greater respect through awareness and appreciation of difference.
– Describes the public-sector diversity-mentoring scheme, the primary goal was to widen the pool of applicants to graduate-employment opportunities in the sector from ethnic minorities and working-class backgrounds.
– Explains that, while respect is a common value shared by all, in one culture it may be experienced differently from in another and for teams to work harmoniously all members need to feel respected.
– Shows how diversity is the key to better relationships and the flourishing of human potential.
