Diversity

When I hear or think about diversity, the words differences and variety come to mind. Diversity is the differences among people, cultures, religions, etc. I fee social change is when a community or group changes and makes steps towards diversity. A community where everyone is the same would be uneventful and boring. With no variety, it would be the same thing day in and day out. The town where I grew up and went to school had very little diversity. Caucasians make up the majority of the people in my town. I was not exposed to a lot of diversity until I came to IUP. I think it is great how diverse the campus is because, you get exposed to different cultures, languages, people, and organizations. In my business classes there is a lot of talk about businesses and organizations becoming more diverse. With a diverse work environment, employees can contribute a variety of skills, ideas, and other attributes to build a strong business/organization.
I think that by promoting diversity, through social action, will make more people aware of different social issues. Social action can bring out social problems/issues that need to be changed or dealt with. By promoting diversity, you can show issues through different culture's, race's, gender, and religion's points of view.
I have come up with a few topics that I would be interested in exploring. Since I am an accounting major, I want to focus on something business related. One topic is to research diversity in the workplace. I want to focus on why there are so few women and minorities hired for top executive positions. Another topic would be researching employees' ethics in business/accounting and how their decisions affect the community. I could focus on the downfalls of companies such as; Enron and WorldCom, and see how people's decisions affect other businesses and the community. My third idea was to take more of an economics approach and study and research the unemployment rate among different minorities.