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The Kaleidoscope View of Workforce Diversity and Inclusion
Author(s) -
IrbyButler Teresa
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.5942/jawwa.2017.109.0108
Subject(s) - kaleidoscope , workforce , diversity (politics) , object (grammar) , inclusion (mineral) , reflection (computer programming) , business , sociology , computer science , engineering , political science , visual arts , art , artificial intelligence , social science , anthropology , law , programming language
As a child, I was fascinated with kaleidoscopes. I was intrigued that the image was ever changing even though I neither added nor removed any of the kaleidoscope's glass fragments. It was a closed device that changed its reflection on the basis of how I manipulated it. Similarly, the resources needed to meet our workforce requirements have generally been in hand, but the water industry needs to rotate the kaleidoscope's object box to create new, more vibrant perspectives to improve its workforce.