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Workforce Management Office (WFMO)
Serving NOAA's Most Valuable Asset - People
Steps in the Managing Diversity Process
 
  Awareness
  • Explain Concepts
  • Show conceptual links with other organizational initiatives, AA, TQM
ADVOCACY
Getting stakeholders to buy the 
concepts and process
Gaining Commitment
  • Articulate strategic imperatives
  • Develop measurements
  • Gain full commitment of senior management team
  Broad-Based Education
  • Spread concepts and imperatives throughout the organization
  • Gain broad-based support
DIAGNOSTIC
Discovering where the 
organization is today
Action Research
  • Determine drivers (roots) of today's organizational behaviors
  Defining the Future State
  • Articulate new behaviors needed to achieve vision
PLANNING
Determining where the organization wants to go and what is available to help it get there
Gap Analysis
  • Find ways to strengthen supporting roots and lessen the influence of hindering roots
  Linking Initiatives
  • Identify commonalities with other initiatives and minimize redundancy
  Systems Change
  • Modify systems, practices and policies to support new behaviors
IMPLEMENTATION
Determining the mechanisms for change
Skills-Based Training
  • Provide skills based training to help everyone learn and practice the new behaviors
  Imbuing New Roots
  • Guide senior managers in articulating the new roots and reinforcing the new behaviors
 FEEDBACK
Measuring and setting actions for continuous measuring and improvement
Monitoring
  • Survey the environment to ensure it works for everyone
  Continuous Improvement
  • Make change as indicated by survey
  • Revisit earlier steps as appropriate
Adapted from the American Institute for Managing Diversity

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Page last edited: October 23, 2007


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