Why you don't need Diversity in Work Place but Respect
Tags: workplace, culture, agile, scrum
Published: 2023-08-02 08:00:00


Recently I was re-fresh my knowledge about Agile and Scrum in practice, after gaining more experience in practice in IT, and after this learning, **I just realised that in the little country I stayed in, none of the company, or the company I have heard of, they are doing Scrum properly**. (Maybe I can talk about that in the future, why none of the company I knew in this country doing a real Scrum.) Now I would like to talk about a very important value of Scrum.

**Respect**

I wrote an article I wrote long ago as well, to talk about Diversity, it talks about why we should talk about more about Respect the difference in workplace, then Diversity.


## Some Cases To Think

![typing](https://media4.giphy.com/media/iFU36VwXUd2O43gdcr/giphy.gif?cid=ecf05e47vnze3db2bw5w8zc5w61pugx3dqfn864bs5mn4tfn&ep=v1_gifs_search&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g)

>Colleague **A** always **types very slow**, and does not know many shortcuts to do things efficiently, 
	 You: This guy seems like from stone age, I cannot believe he is qualified for doing software jobs


**Question**: Is is possible there are something you haven't noticed, is it possible he didn't use the OS before, maybe he is a Mac user, but you give him a windows. 

**This is a difference of people's performance of hardware and setting**, it should be respected. 


![lunch box](https://media2.giphy.com/media/l4Ep6sIcT2T0wsJLa/giphy.gif?cid=ecf05e47ekvebyotbtflzk1s25hx0mhdn155gaj8b0530cp8&ep=v1_gifs_search&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g)


>Colleague **B** he is always away during lunch time about 2 to 3 hours,
   You: He is lazy, I will suggest boss to fire him.

**Question**: **different cultures have different way of lunch**, I knew a French colleague, he said in France, people always have one hour plus lunch, a proper meal, not a work day sandwich. 


![mute](https://media4.giphy.com/media/HWl1atKEPAWcw/giphy.gif?cid=ecf05e47fctapacny8k136o8dduoz0hw3kkfo2w6a4qn5pei&ep=v1_gifs_search&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g)

>Colleague **C** he does not talk at all, his English is so hard to understand
   You: He does not communicate, fire him

Question, **not everyone are native language is English**, maybe slow yourself down instead


![late](https://media1.giphy.com/media/Cyv99H3tH0y1PVYPB1/giphy.gif?cid=ecf05e47j19ndwgutm10m1m17a9bbq7z71tek7ptenjcrnhw&ep=v1_gifs_search&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g)

> Colleague **D**: He always start very late (in a flexible workplace), no one can catch him during day time to collaborate.
> You: he does not collaborate, fire him


Question: **If it is your colleague or your staff, what do you think of it? Do you think the person should be fired or not?**

These are just very little of the differences in workplace, I am pretty sure you will see more. No matter your place is small or big, diversed or not. 

This is why I wanted to say, **diversity is not the most important thing in your workplace, the respect of the difference is.** 


## Summary

Many workplace focus too much on diversity, and ignore the difference (not includes in common diversity, gender, race, etc), **it give people a wrong feeling, we have the diversity so we have the culture of respect, and our place can learn and grow together**. In most of time, **it is not true**, it only give you a surface feeling of it, and make people blind about the real problem, we should respect each other's difference, not only on common diversity problems.