CHAPTER 3,4 and 5
CHAPTER 3,4 and 5
CHAPTER 4
PROMOTING INCLUSIVE CULTURE
Definition of Inclusive Culture
Inclusion is a sense of belonging, connection and community at work. And inclusive organizations help
people feel welcomed, known, valued and encouraged to bring their whole, unique selves to work.
Culture is the ideas, customs, and social behavior of a particular people or society. An organization‘s culture
is the culmination of the priorities, values and behaviors, which support their employees in how they
work singularly, in teams and with clients. Culture plays a huge role in shifting the diversity needle and
forming truly inclusive environments
An inclusive culture involves the full and successful integration of diverse people into a workplace or
industry. Additionally, inclusive cultures extend beyond basic or token presence of workers who have
disabilities. They encompass both formal and informal policies and practices, and involve several core
values:
Representation: The presence of people with disabilities across a range of employee roles and leadership
positions
Receptivity: Respect for differences in working styles and flexibility in tailoring positions to the strengths
and abilities of employees and
Fairness: Equitable access to all resources, opportunities, networks and decision making processes.
4.3 Building inclusive community
What is an inclusive community?
An inclusive community:
- Does everything that it can to respect all its citizens, gives them full access to resources, and promotes
equal treatment and opportunity.
- Works to eliminate all forms of discrimination.
- Engages all its citizens in decision-making processes that affect their lives.
- Values diversity and
- Responds quickly to racist and other discriminating incidents.
An inclusive society aims at empowering and promoting the social, economic, and political inclusion of all,
irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion, economic, or other status. It is a society that
leaves no one behind. We work to ensure that societies are open and inclusive to all.
Here are things an organization can do to create a more inclusive workplace and, therefore, a more appealing
place to work:
- Appropriately Connect with Employees
- Interact with Different People
- Create Employee Resource Groups
- Place Importance on Inclusion
- Hold Better Meetings
- Invest in Diversity Training
- People have opportunities to experience a variety of social roles that include friendships, contributing
to the community and gaining new skills. Some of the benefits of inclusion to the person are: Improved
feelings of well-being and self-esteem.
Why is building an inclusive community important?
- Acts of exclusion and injustice based on group identity and other factors should not be allowed to
occur and/or continue.
- All people have the right to be part of decisions that affect their lives and the groups they belong to
and
- Diversity enriches our lives, so it is worth our while to value our community's diversity.
Inclusive community is important to consider the motivation behind an individual, a group, or a community's
desire to build an inclusive community because the motivation affects the following:
Types and sequence of strategies selected
Resources available
Amount of support and obstruction
Rate of progress: if the major leaders and groups support the effort, progress is likely to be faster.
Characteristics of an Inclusive Community
Inclusive communities do have the following set of characteristics
Integrative and cooperative: inclusive communities bring people together and are places where people and
organizations work together.
Interactive: inclusive communities have accessible community spaces and open public places as well as
groups and organizations that support social interaction and community activity, including celebrating
community life.
Invested: inclusive communities are places where both the public and private sectors commit resources for
the social and economic health and well-being of the whole community.
Diverse: inclusive communities welcome and incorporate diverse people and cultures into the structures,
processes and functions of daily community life.
Equitable: inclusive communities make sure that everyone has the means to live in decent conditions (i.e.
income supports, employment, good housing) and the opportunity to develop
one‘s capacities and to participate actively in community life.
Accessible and Sensitive: inclusive communities have an array of readily available and accessible supports
and services for the social, health, and developmental needs of their populations and provide such supports in
culturally sensitive and appropriate ways /essential services identified include good schools, recreation,
childcare, libraries, public transit, affordable housing and supportive housing, home care, crisis and
emergency supports, well-coordinated and comprehensive settlement supports/.
Participatory: inclusive communities encourage and support the involvement of all their members in the
planning and decision-making that affects community conditions and development, including having an
effective voice with senior levels of government and
Safe: inclusive communities ensure both individual and broad community safety and security so that no one
feels at risk in their homes or moving around the neighborhood and city.
Means of establish inclusive culture
To create an inclusive culture in which everyone feels they belong and is comfortable expressing their
uniqueness,
There are four key inclusive leadership behaviors
1) Empowerment
2) Accountability
3) Courage:
4) Humility
How inclusive culture establish?
There are five stages in establishing inclusive culture
1. Consider what you want to achieve and what the benefits will be.
2. Undertake an inclusion review of your workplace
3. Decide where work is needed and create an action plan.
4. Communicate the plan with staff and put the plan into action.
5. Review, monitor and evaluate the plan’s impact and use what you find to plan future action
Ten Characteristics of an Inclusive Organization
1. It accepts diversity and inclusion as a way of life.
2. It evaluates individual and group performance on the basis of observable and measurable
behaviors and competencies..
3. It operates under transparent policies and procedures.
4. It is consistent in its interactions with everyone.
5. It creates and maintains a learning culture.
6. It has a comprehensive and easily accessible system of conflict resolution at all levels.
7. It recognizes that it is part of the community that it serves.
8. It lives its mission and core values.
9. It values earned privilege over unearned privilege.
10. It accepts and embraces change.
Inclusive values
The seven Pillars of Inclusion:
Access, Attitude, Choice, partnership, communication, policy and opportunity
Values are fundamental guides and prompts to action.
A values framework can be considered as a universe of interconnected meanings.
CHAPTER 5
INCLUSION FOR PEACE, DEMOCRACY AND DEVELOPMENT
5.1. Inclusiveness for Peace-Peace can be defined in several ways. However, for the purpose of this module
peace is defined as creating mutual understanding, positive relationship between individuals and groups.
Peaceful, democratize and developed. Peace issues are core to the discussion of resilience. Resilient societies
are those where the social fabric is strong.
To develop peace each and every body have to:
Think local and act global
National implementation alone will not suffice to achieve the SDGs
Protect and support civil society in fostering sustainable peace:
5.2. Inclusive Education for Democracy
Inclusive education for democracy has not been established as a central purpose for schooling in
Ethiopia. Schools are the ideal place to promote democracy. One of the most important tasks of schools
should be helping students to realize the values of democracy. The democratic values include is to
enhance protected right, independent quality life for all, freedom, pursuit of happiness, justice, the common
good, truth, respect and tolerance for diversity and partisanship.
Democratic principles for inclusive practices
1. Diversity enriches and strengthens all communities.
2. All persons with disabilities different in their needs, potentials, learning and working styles;
3. Their achievements according to their potentials are equally valued, respected and celebrated by society.
4. All learners are enabled to fulfill their potential by taking into account individual requirements and needs.
5.3. Inclusion for Development-The word development is widely used to refer to a specified state of
advancement or growth a new and advanced idea, profession, physical, mental, product; or an event that
constitutes a new stage under changing circumstances. Development is a positive growth or change in
economic, social and political aspects of a country. Any kind of development should be inclusive.
Importance of Inclusion
1. It is important to support people learn, productive, successful and live independently, be successful without
helping them too much.
2. Inclusiveness when practiced well is very important because: All people are able to be part of their
community and develop a sense of belonging and become better prepared for life in the community as
children and adults. It provides better opportunities for learning.
3. Inclusion values diversity and the unique contributions, where everybody brings to the milieu. In a truly
inclusive setting, every individual feels safe and has a sense of belonging. A person who participates in setting
life goals and take part in decisions that affects them.
4. The opportunity to participate in the typical experiences in life; to be with other people and form
friendships and develop other social skills; for natural lifelong learning in real situations and access to
inclusion models
5. The inclusion model is also beneficial because it prepares individuals today and in the future
Respecting divers needs, culture, values, demands and ideas
These include race, ethnicity, age, ability, language, nationality, socioeconomic status, gender, religion, or
sexual orientation. The group is diverse if a wide variety of groups are represented. Cultural diversity has
become a hot-button issue when applied to the workplace.
Cultural Diversity
The term culturally diversity is often used interchangeably with the concept of multiculturalism.
Recognition of the abundant diversity of cultures; respect for the differences; acknowledging the validity
of different cultural expressions and contributions; valuing what other cultures offer; encouraging the
contribution of diverse groups; empowering people to strengthen themselves and others to achieve their
maximum potential by being critical of their own biases; and celebrating rather than just tolerating the
differences in order to bring about unity through diversity are important elements in defining and
describing multiculturalism. The multicultural person, therefore, is not simply the one who is sensitive to
many different cultures. Rather, this person is always in the process of becoming a part of and apart from a
given cultural context.
Ethnic diversity
The diversity of something is the fact that it contains many very different elements. The terms "race" and
"ethnicity" used interchangeably, but, generally speaking, the meanings are distinct. Race is usually seen as
biological, referring to the physical characteristics of a person, while ethnicity is viewed as a social
science construct that describes a person's cultural identity. It is including nationality, regional culture,
ancestry, and language.
Benefits of Cultural Diversity
There are many advantages of a diverse in schools and workplaces. Organizations
Increased productivity,
Improved creativity
Improved employee engagement
Improved company reputation
wider range of skills
Improves cultural insights
Reduced Fear, Improved Performance
Put a variety of world views into one room, and you'll come out the other side with better ideas
In the same vein, workplace diversity boosts creativity
Schools‘ cultural diversity enriches the educational experience
It helps dispel negative stereotypes and personal biases about different groups are not necessarily our
own; so that as we interact with others we can build bridges to trust, respect, and understanding across
cultures; inclusiveness.
Religious diversity
A religious conflict is a conflict primarily caused or justified by differences in religion. In the modern period,
debates are common over the extent to which religious, economic, or ethnic aspects of a conflict predominate
in a given conflict.
Lack of values for differences and poor management of religious institutions
Disrespect and unfair treatment other religions
Unclear roles as followers of a given religion
Inadequate spiritual education and training or ill thought
Lack of collaboration and poor living environment
Partiality or lack of equal treatment from political leaders
How to Resolve Conflict
1. Agree on a mutually acceptable time and place to discuss the conflict
2. State the problem as you see it and list your concerns
3. Let the other person have his/her say
4. Listen and ask questions
5. Stick to one conflict at a time to the issue at hand
6. Seek common ground
Gender differences
In general terms, "sex" refers to the biological differences between males and females, such as the genitalia
and genetic differences. "Gender" can refer to the role of a male or female in society, known as a gender role,
or an individual's concept of them, or gender identity. Either of the two sexes (male and female), especially
when considered with reference to social and cultural differences rather than biological ones.
Stereotype thinking against woman
Stereotyping is a cognitive process in that it involves associating a characteristic with a group, but it can also
involve, lead to, or serve to justify an affective reaction toward people from other groups
What is expected from society to equally treat of female?
Our priorities are winning economic equality and securing equal rights for women;
Reproductive freedom and other women's health issues;
An equitable distribution of life's opportunities and resources between women and men, and/or the equal
representation of women and men
Every woman and girl is entitled to live in dignity and in freedom, without any fear.
Caring practices for female, not violence
Equal opportunity for education and employment
Gender Justice is indispensable for development, poverty reduction, and is crucial to achieving human
progress
Marginalized group of people
Marginalization is a process that includes many external forces. People may be marginalized on the basis of
the social, gender, cultural, ethnic, economic, social order, beliefs and other factors.
Creating friendly environments for marginalized people
1. Tolerate for the differences opinions and attitudes
2. Seek out marginalized voices and perspectives and provide support
3. Confront your own racist thought and try to be inclusive of all the differences
4. Use your privilege to support marginalized people‘s movements
5. Give your time and money, if possible for the success of inclusive development
6. Be proactive about inclusion in your daily life
7. Avoid segregation
8. Do the work that help to promote inclusiveness