Imagine that your supervisor knows you have just completed this course and asks you to devise a diversity action plan for your organization or division within your organization. Note: Choose a real or fictive institution (i.e., school, NGO, charity, corporation, or governmental agency) as your intervention site. Reflecting on the readings assigned in this course and supplemental activities, create a DEI assessment plan and toolkit for your organization. Be sure to consider the most pressing social issues today, i.e., the covid pandemic, racial justice issues, food insecurity, and anything else you foresee as a potential challenge to diversity and social justice in the organization

Note : look at the examples links in the uploded file .

Explanation

What is DEI? What is social justice
What is workforce diversity?
Why do we want and need “diverse” organizations?

Assessment

Assess the leadership and the organizational culture of your chosen site.

Is your organization ready to adopt

DEI/Social Justice? Share your thoughts on how you would begin to assess this question and what methods you would use. Provide a justification for using any of these DEI methods: Forming a committee, collecting data, Interviewing stakeholder groups, other approaches.

Think for a moment about your institution, organization, department, or work group. Whose voices are heard and amplified, and who gets silenced or sidelined? Are all people treated in fair and equitable ways? Who is allowed to take on leadership and
decision-making roles? What internal structures and cultural aspects of the organization will you examine?

What documents/ areas of communication are important to track and consider (mission, vision, etc.)?

What ongoing data should be collected?

How might you assess physical settings and spaces?
How might you assess leadership?
What will you consider regarding how the organization is communicating their commitment to diversity externally?
Discuss hiring, training, promotion, mentoring processes. 

What issues would you focus on that we have covered in this class? What emerging issues would you explore that we haven’t considered?
Given what you have learned this semester you can probably already begin to “guess” which diversity issues will unveil-in other words, a common set of diversity issues that plague institutions. Write a hypothetical list of some of those issues that you might
explore, i.e., racist policies, lack of representation, access for persons with disabilities. Consider, and reflect on,

how you would explore these issues. 

Once you decide and uncover the organizational strengths and weaknesses, how will you begin to address them?

What might an action plan look like? Pitching the Plan–Not all leaders in your organization will be on board, how do you propose getting them on board for instituting the plan. How do you plan to move people in the organization toward new and inclusive ways of thinking.

How will you communicate your plan and intentions internally – to your workers and externally?

Outcomes measurements

How will you know you are achieving the goals set forth in a diversity plan?

What type of assessments would you institute to measure changes in the organization?

Toolbox of resources and action steps

What types of resources would you provide for ongoing success?

What types of initiatives, programs, etc. might you suggest for future growth and success?

Project requirements
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Minimum of 10 typed
pages – meaning you have written four complete pages, not including title or bibliography · 12-point font size·
1-inch margins on all sides ·
Double-spaced throughout ·
Personally proofread (spell-checked and grammar-checked)