Diversity training is training provided by an organization, usually with the stated purpose of treating diversity as an opportunity and promoting the ability of students and workers from a great variety of backgrounds to cooperate productively and make as great a contribution as possible to organizational goals.

Although it is a big business with a profound effect on business, government and education, observers characterize diversity training in very different ways. Its proponents consider it morally right, because it respects diversity. They also view it as economically sound, because it enables organizations to draw on multiplicities of talents and strengths. Its opponents consider it an oppressive ideological re-education tactic, that actually injures the ability of organizations to attain their goals.

Books

• Peter Wood, Diversity: The Invention of A Concept, ISBN 1893554627

An historical account and analysis of the concept.