What is it about?
This diversity awareness paper, explores whether a change in society's attitude towards BME youths would help to address the feral behaviour, often displayed when they believe they are not being respected or treated equally.
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Why is it important?
This paper is timely as it builds on what was described as a "ground-breaking study" conducted by the author, which revealed that a lack of awareness of what respect means from the cultural perspective of another, leads to misinterpretations and conflict. This insight helped to create a respect strategy that promoted harmonious multicultural team working relationships, learning outcomes and performance.
Perspectives
This publication provides insight to how important respect is for BME youths today, to who are often disadvantaged in society. The two BME youths interviewed were provided with the opportunity to explain why they and others like them, believe they deserve to be respected. Listening to these youths made evident that an inability to understand their need for respect, challenged their self-esteem and identity. This lack of respect often provokes a feral response as means for demanding it from others, which suggests that respect can be used to address an undercurrent of discontent and outright conflict for promoting harmony.
Dr Doirean Wilson
Middlesex University London
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This page is a summary of: A hierarchy of respect, Human Resource Management International Digest, July 2015, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/hrmid-06-2015-0104.
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