ROLE OF “HUMAN LIBRARY INTERVENTION” IN CREATING AWARENESS OF DIVERSITY & INCLUSION

Abstract

The advent of globalization, workforce mobility, and international projects are generating demands for culturally proficient individuals and post pandemic there is scope of creating awareness of diversity & inclusion across globe using technology. Education, training, and development of these employees begin in the webroom now (Van Dyne, Ang, Livermore, 2010).

Diversity and inclusion efforts tussle since they often attempt to find a one-size-fits-all solution to eradicating bias. The Human Library is making an influence, because their approach is personalized to each individual’s own biases and prejudices. They’re tackling diversity and inclusion one person at a time and now with advent of technology they can do it on a large scale and see the benefits.

The main drive of this paper is to examine whether the education system plays an important role in developing an individual with an open outlook without any discrimination, stereotypes, and prejudice and the important use of the human library as a tool to develop this open outlook. The research objectives of this paper include focusing on the theoretical and practical concepts of emotional intelligence, stereotypes, discrimination, prejudice and establishing a relationship between these concepts and the human library utilizing thorough literature review and consolidation.