Werk.kleur.rijk APK

With werk.kleur.rijk you as an employer, employee or HR manager a rich source of information on hand about cultural diversity in the workplace. Set your cultural profile as a leader together and compare with the Flemish averages. A.h.v. video clips attest both Flemish managers and employees with a migration background on the benefits and conditions of cultural diversity. They provide practical tips and tricks to make a success of it. Concrete cases offer help to resolve difficult situations in the workplace or avoid.

- Try the "Flemish" is your management style. View your personal cultural profile and compare the Flemish averages.
- Compare features of some cultures and how do these affect leadership.
- Animation Movies on culture, stereotypes and prejudices, and an absurdly funny film about stereotypes.
- Look through a different culture glasses. What for one is rude, is just another proof of respect.
- How to recognize and respond to discrimination.
- True practical situations. How to react and avoid cultural misunderstandings.
- Testimonials from other employers about the benefits of cultural diversity for their business.
- Overview of conditions for the success of cultural diversity.
- Practical tips and tricks for building a competent and diverse workforce.
- Quick summary of direct links to information on grants for starting a diversity policy on education, legal rights and obligations, etc.

This app is extremely useful if you
- Questions the practicality of cultural diversity
- To work towards more diversity in the workplace Flanders
- Faced with more diversity in the workplace and does not always know how to deal with this as best as possible.

The content of the app is aimed at both situations where guidance is given to middle and higher educated as to lower skilled. It assumes a culture contrastive approach of Flemish culture is compared to the Turkish culture.

Learning modules were developed for job seekers (Turkish) origin with a small and highly skilled profile and for newcomers to assist him at the start of a challenging career.


About the project?

The werk.kleur.rijk smartphone app was created as part of the ESF project "Cultural Diversity in the Workplace Flemish" coordinated by the Center for Applied Linguistics - University of Hasselt, in collaboration with the VDAB.


Why?

In Flanders, the unemployment rate of immigrant population are higher than the European average. People of Turkish origin are the largest immigrant group in Western Europe and also in Flanders, they are the most important group of job seekers with an origin outside the EU, after jobseekers with Moroccan migration background.
Also small and highly skilled immigrant candidates are difficult to work. This is all the more painful since existing specific talents and skills are not utilized.

anouk.gelan@uhasselt.be
marieke.huysmans@uhasselt.be