Although diversity in the workplace is accepted in today's business world, workers still deal with bias and discrimination on a daily basis. Every day you can find people discriminated against when it comes to competing for a job or a higher position. Organizations are still being sued for civil rights violations. “Many organizations have sought to adapt their policies and practices to the more female, less white, more open about religion and sexual orientation, and multigenerational workforces. The transition is not easy and corporate leadership is often lacking” (Harvey & Allard, 2012, p. To better understand how minorities find themselves in such situations and how this impact can have a positive or negative influence on them, our class did an experiment. The ball and sock experiment is a good way to understand the challenges that come with using the non-dominant hand. In this experiment, left-handed individuals are considered a minority and this allows right-handed people to see obstacles that they face. When you use your non-dominant hand, you have to work harder or longer to complete a task. It may take you longer to do things like eat with cutlery, sign your name, and open a door with a key. Because it takes longer to finish them, you may experience feelings of deficiency when you do them. Feelings of embarrassment, inadequacy, and feelings of helplessness are similar to those that belong to minorities. Minorities are at a disadvantage in the workforce due to their different cultural and ethnic origins, usually different from those who govern the majority of the population. Since… half of the document… rewards diversity in the workplace to achieve supportive initiatives so that minorities can thrive and contribute their best qualities to the needs of the company. The ball and sock experiment provides a clearer understanding of how minority populations are disadvantaged and how others cannot see these struggles until they are put in their shoes. “We probably won't solve economic inequality; society seemingly always returns to hierarchy. Imposing economic sanctions that attack entrenched systems may simply deconstruct the reasons why the system has been so effective for so long, and thus pave the way for greater human understanding” (Summer, 2014). As Jackie Summer says, we need to break these ingrained beliefs that started many centuries ago, start by leveling the playing field to make everyone equal and maybe then diversity will be the norm of society..