Cultural & Gender Diversity

A Tale of O, the most popular video about diversity worldwide, is unique both in style and content. It shows the striking consequences of being "different" from the others around you - being an O among X's. The videotape illustrates dramatically how this alone powerfully affects both the X's treatment of an O and the O's view of itself, regardless of the nature of the difference. Whether the O differs from the X's by gender, race, age, language, age or other factors, the effects are similar.

Focusing on the issues that can arise during employment, this ethnically diverse program shares the often frustrating and dramatic experiences minorities often face while on the job. Experts advise on how to deal constructively with problems such as racism, verbal abuse, and ignorance. Participants give an eye-opening account of how these problems exist at all levels of employment, from the fast-food industry to the corporate advertising world.A Cambridge Educational Production. One 45-minute video.

This documentary-style series features the inspiring stories of minorities who have faced and overcome adversity both in seeking employment and while employed.A Cambridge Educational Production.

So often we focus on what makes us different, but in reality there is far more that we have in common. This emotionally moving, inspirational video follows the circle of life as it highlights the common values and motivations that we share as human beings.

The Blue-Eyed diversity training video or DVD offers viewers a chance to watch a full-length workshop with America's most dynamic diversity trainer, Jane Elliott. Elliott's exercise, initiated in 1968 as a ground-breaking experiment in anti-racist training, has been featured on Today, the Tonight Show, Donahue, Oprah, ABC News and PBS' Frontline. Elliott believes, Blue-Eyed is by far the most comprehensive and useful video on my work available; it sums up 28 years of experience in schools, universities and corporations."

Following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Jane Elliott, a third grade teacher in an all-white, all-Christian small town, wanted to teach her class what it feels like to be discriminated against based on a physical characteristic over which one has no control.

Across Asia, the notion of face"-a propriety of appearances-is being replaced by Western frankness, while traditional caste systems are yielding to wealth as the determinant of status. This program profiles three executives who typify the changing style of business in Asia: James C. Louey, senior executive of the world's largest bus company, KMB in Hong Kong; Dr. Jannie Tay, CEO of The Hour Glass, a retail chain based in Singapore that sells watches throughout Asia; and Brijesh Wahi, managing director of Cellstream Technologies, a software services and engineering company out of Bangalore. (27 minutes)"

This program takes the viewer through the intensely personal stories of several ethnically diverse storytellers. From learning to speak English to teenage motherhood and blatant discrimination, all the participants share how they were able to beat the odds and gain employment. Each story offers insight into the issues that affect minorities, while experts offer some explanation and advice about overcoming obstacles in the job search process. A Cambridge Educational Production. One 35-minute video.

This program examines the pressures facing working women with small children: salaries too low to pay for proper care and supervision of their children during the work day, inadequate or unavailable child-care facilities, little or no help with household maintenance. The locale of the program is Dallas, but the experiences are national. (24 minutes)

This program is devoted to the ways in which the demands of a diverse work force can best be met: how schools can help prepare students, how businesses can help build bridges, how all Americans can-and must-learn to value, respect, and benefit from diversity in society and in the workplace. (26 minutes)

This series addresses the problems and opportunities of the demographic reality of the '90s and beyond. Native-born whites whose first language is English will soon constitute the minority in the workforce-a mosaic of colors, languages, and cultural traditions and values-and an immense challenge for both managers and workers. These programs address the numerous issues involved in making the mosaic workplace a more productive one. 10-part series.

This program refutes the melting pot theory, explaining that employees do not-and should not be expected to-set aside their particular cultural values when they come to work. The most successful organizations and managers are those who understand diversity and seek to profit from it; this program presents the views of African Americans, Hispanics, Asian Americans, and Native Americans who share their work experiences and demonstrate that what they want from others is no more than an open mind and a fair chance. (37 minutes)

This program deals with the nature of biases and preconceptions, pointing out that almost everyone sees the world from his or her own perspective and stressing the need to examine one's own thinking about us" and "them." It covers the subjects of being "in" and "out" and the role of peer groups, community institutions, schools, and the media in determining what is "good" and "bad"; permits members of minorities to speak out about how bias affects their lives; and challenges viewers to examine their own biases and overcome them. (14 minutes)"

This training favorite asks the simple question: If we shrunk the earth’s population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all existing ratios remaining the same, what would it look like? In three minutes, this program statistically approximates what that village would be like.

Where prestige as well as income are the goals, women are not only denied equal pay for equal work, but are, much more often than not, denied the opportunity to show what they can do; or, having the opportunity, are unable to perform adequately because of the clubhouse mentality of their male colleagues. The solution for a growing number of women executives: start their own businesses. (21 minutes)