{"id":109,"date":"2016-03-08T22:52:55","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T22:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/?p=109"},"modified":"2016-03-08T22:52:55","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T22:52:55","slug":"a-colleges-first-chief-diversity-officer-sees-cultural-differences-as-assets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/2016\/03\/08\/a-colleges-first-chief-diversity-officer-sees-cultural-differences-as-assets\/","title":{"rendered":"A College\u2019s First Chief Diversity Officer Sees Cultural Differences as Assets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the inaugural chief diversity officer at Saint Mary\u2019s College of California, <strong>Tomas Gomez-Arias<\/strong> draws on what he has learned as a professor of marketing and global business.<\/p>\n<p>As he did his research, he says, he saw how multinational companies &#8220;work in different environments and regions with work forces with different languages, different religions, different races, different cultures, in a very substantial way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cultural differences should be seen as assets that can make an organization more dynamic, innovative, and productive, he concluded, instead of as a &#8220;problem&#8221; that has to be solved.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/A-College-s-First-Chief\/235599\">Read the entire post here. \u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the inaugural chief diversity officer at Saint Mary\u2019s College of California, Tomas Gomez-Arias draws on what he has learned as a professor of marketing and global business. As he did his research, he says, he saw how multinational companies &#8220;work in different environments and regions with work forces with different languages, different religions, different&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/2016\/03\/08\/a-colleges-first-chief-diversity-officer-sees-cultural-differences-as-assets\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6854,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6854"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions\/110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}