Diversity in the Workplace Diversity in the workplace. Drew me right in. I knew that this was the topic for me! Although I haven't ever put much thought into this before, I was excited to research it. Let alone get to interview a business person of a company. At first, I had to put a lot of effort into who I wanted to interview because my boyfriend's father had a lot of friends that were great candidates for this paper of mine. I finally decided on Gregory, who works at Boeing as an engineer. However, he is not a CEO or anything, he has worked there for almost forty years and is very high up, and could answer these questions I felt like in detail. I found this interview and experience enlightening because it was so interesting and all of his answers made me pretty happy! To fill you in just a bit, the wise owner of Boeing is Willam Boeing. Dennis Muilenburg as the CEO. Marie Olson as the privacy officer.
When I met Gregory for this interview I was so nervous, just because I was honestly a little bit intimidated. However, we sat down, got our coffees,' and we were off to talk. I began to ask him just some basic information. I already knew that he worked for Boeing for almost forty years and was an engineer that figured out new parts for airplanes, and all that they do, which is called aerospace. I also asked him what made him want to get into this field and why. Greg replied and said, "I knew I always was a nerd and loved airplanes, and after I got out of the air force I knew that it was exactly what I needed to do in this world." (Stroker). I found his reply touching in a way; he had such great enthusiasm in his voice. I knew that this was going to be a lovely interview! I then began to crack the big, important questions. The first question I binged at Greg was what are the ethics or values of his workplace in terms of diversity. Gregory stated, "Well, throughout the years, I have had a few different bosses. Some were black; some were white. Boeing really values diversity in the workplace because we feel like we can learn a lot from other people, no matter what race you are. In my opinion, we have a lot of diversity at Boeing. Hell, my office is right by two other women's offices." (Stroker). I was fond of his answer. Simply because I was shocked because I had a different thought in my head of Boeing on this topic. I was also fond of the fact that he has two women right by his office because women are more likely not to get jobs than men just because they are women. I was iffy on then asking him about how these values contribute to the company's decision-making on hiring because I felt like he made it very clear in his first answer that diversity in the workplace is a thing at Boeing. He answered me, "I don't think that what race you are has any effect on people getting a job at Boeing at all. You just have to have the smarts. I mean, we are engineers' here!" He then also went on a little bit more in detail with this question and stated, "J...
