SECONDARY DIMENSIONS OF DIVERSITY

Individual differences that are acquired, discarded and/or modified

throughout the life of a person. These eight dimensions are work
background, income, marital status, military experience, geographic
locale, family background religious beliefs and educations.
Finally, there are the dimensions of diversity that people don’t
always think about, but that can have a great force on how interactions
in the workplace can take place.
 1. Language and 2. Appearance 3. Food and
Communications
and dress eating habits
not just the language an
individual speaks further than types of food,
(English, Spanish clothing and when a person
Mandarin, Filipino, etc.)
consist of eats, vegetable,
but how people desire
tattoos, piercing, vegan lactose
to share information
with one another. hairstyle. intolerance.
 4. Time and time– 5. Sense of space
consciousness how close does a
preferred and most person stand, 6. Smokers and
productive time of
how much the non-smokers.
the day, punctually,
flexibility.
area do they
require.
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