Diversity Awareness (U.S.)

The Diversity Awareness (U.S.) Test helps measure a candidate’s workplace diversity knowledge and ensures that they understand the benefits of a diverse workforce. 

The Diversity Awareness (U.S.) test measures the candidate’s knowledge of the issues around working in a diverse workplace.  Designed for all employees, this test enables the candidate to demonstrate that he or she is knowledgeable about the benefits of a diverse workforce and the common areas where care must be shown to prevent misunderstandings due to differences in backgrounds, gender, and abilities. This test includes the following topics: Diversity in Organizations, Diversity: Concepts and Driving Forces, Managing for Diversity – Policies & Programs, Organizational Roles and Culture, and The Character of Diversity.

What It’s Best Used For

• Pre-Employment Screening: Vetting new job applicants early in the recruitment pipeline to ensure they possess the required baseline knowledge to operate smoothly within an inclusive corporate infrastructure.
• Evaluating Multi-Tier Leadership Roles: Assessing middle management, senior executives, and human resources professionals on their core understanding of organizational change, strategic recruitment, and performance appraisal equity.
• Auditing Diversity Policy Comprehension: Reviewing a candidate’s familiarity with corporate diversity programs, employee development tracks, and the overarching business benefits of globalization and demographic adjustments.
• Vetting Team Inter-Group Relations: Ensuring personnel understand primary and secondary identity paradigms, cultural frames, and structural biases to optimize cross-departmental team synergy.
• Validating Global Workforce Readiness: Screening individuals for roles that interface with international stakeholders or highly diverse domestic demographics by evaluating their grasp of global economic and human capital constructs.

Job Family/Title – Human Resources
Languages Available – English (US)
Average Testing Time – 30 minutes
Time Allowed (minutes): 3 min. per question
Approximate Completion Time: 22 Minutes

Test Topics

Cultural Diversity in Organizations

• Connotations of Past Initiative
• Cultural Frames (Biases)
• Direct Measures
• Indirect Measures
• OD & Change Management

Cultural Diversity: Concepts & Driving Forces

• Advantages (e.g., competitive)
• Demographic Changes
• Economic
• Globalization
• Terminology
• The Scope of Diversity

Managing for Diversity – Policies & Programs

• Employee Development
• Linkages to Organizational Strategies
• Performance Management & Appraisal
• Strategy Implications: Recruit, Hire, & Select

Organizational Roles & Culture

• Inter-group Relations & Communications
• Role of First-line & Middle Management
• Role of HR & Diversity Officers
• Role of Networking
• Role of Senior Leadership

The Character of Diversity

• Models & Paradigms of Diversity
• Primary & Secondary Identity
• Relationship to Economic, Social, & Human Capital