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Workforce diversity is a primary concern for most of the businesses. Today’s organisations need to recognise and manage workforce diversity effectively. Many articles have been written on this topic but there is no specific definition of workforce diversity. The main purpose of this article is to review the literature of workforce diversity. What is workforce diversity? What are the benefits of workforce diversity in organisations, what management can do to enhance workforce diversity in organisations? What are the disadvantages of workforce diversity? .This questions would be main purpose of this article
Workforce Diversity : The Need for Organisational Paradigm Shift
Oman Chapter of Arabian Journal of Business and Management Review, 2019
The focus of this paper is to review the literature of workforce diversity and offer explanation for why diversity efforts are not fulfilling their promise in most organisations today and present a fresh paradigm through which organisations can understand and leverage the diversity that exists in their domain for the organisations benefit. This review paper elucidates the questions of what is workforce diversity. Why should an organisation concern itself with diversity? What is workforce diversity management? What perspectives have guided diversity till date? How should organisations see workforce diversity? What are the benefits of workforce diversity in organisations? What can management do to enhance work force diversity in organisations? What are the disadvantages of workforce diversity? These questions and many more would be the main purpose of this paper!
International Journal of Business Review And Entrepreneurship |Volume-1 | Issue-1 | June - 2020 |ISSN No. 1115-9146, 2020
In the world of automation, technology and globalization, diversity exists in every nook and corner of this world. The diversity of age, gender, sexual orientation, nationality, race and culture can be seen everywhere whether it is an organisation, school, or higher educational institutes. Workforce diversity is a concept gaining major importance in past 20 years. The study tries to explore the concept of workforce diversity and also throws light on key dimensions of workforce diversity by analyzing specifically five dimensions namely age, gender, religion, ethnicity, marital status and educational background. Different models of dimension of diversity and techniques to measure the different dimensions are also discussed.. About 90 papers related to the topic has been searched and studied by the author. This study will also find the impact of these dimensions on the performance of the workplace and wellbeing of the diverse workforce at workplace. Finally researcher has come to know about the most studied diversity dimensions, there measurement scale and strategies through which diversity can be handled in a proper way.
In the present century, Workforce Diversity has become an essential business concern. In the so-called Information Age, the greatest assets of most companies are now on two feet (or a set of wheels).Undeniably, there is a talent war raging. No company can afford to restrict its ability to attract and retain the very best employees available. Generally speaking, the term " Workforce Diversity " refers to policies and practices that seek to include people within a workforce who are considered to be, in some way, different from those in the prevailing constituency. Globalization, diversification, better customer interface, changing organizational structure and government regulations are all an integral part of the contemporary scenario – each of these also compels companies to recreate themselves – this manifests itself in one major change that is seen – an increasing diversity at the workplace. This article proposes to explore not only the conceptual approach to people diversity at the workplace but also attempts to create a model for understanding and managing diversity. For this we will analyze why diversity occurs in organizations and then go on to explore the key drivers of workforce diversity and try to know how it is key to organizational success. The phenomenon of diversity is on the increase; so we will try to identify the reasons for this increase. Diversity has a deep impact upon the processes of the organizations. If we manage diversity well, it will result in positive outcomes for the organization, but if we are unable to tackle the diverse workforce, we will not only lose the opportunity to use the advantages of workforce diversity, but it will actually result in a negative impact upon the efficiency and effectiveness indicators of the organization.
International Journal of Management and Humanities (IJMH), 2021
Workplace diversity refers to the commonalities and contrasts among individuals at work in terms of class, nationality, age, ethnic heritage, academic background, physical capabilities and impairments, gender, interpersonal, and psychological variables. As a result, organizations must create an environment that is compatible with the diversification of their workforce in order to improve their efficiency in this globalised era. The goal of managing workforce diversity is to build and keep a favorable work environment where each employee's contributions are recognized. This reseаrсh рарer сritiсаlly аnаlyses wоrkfоrсe diversity аnd its раrаdigm shift оver time in the соntext оf аn оrgаnizаtiоn. Furthermore, this planned research intends to investigate of workplace diversity and its impact on an organization's efficiency. This study's research will be solely collected from secondary sources. The reseаrch study's findings will be beneficial to the organization since they provide some guidelines and recommendations that can be utilized to develop effective раrаdigms for managing diversity in the workplace. The proposed research study concludes with the belief that appropriate handling of workplace diversity may lead to more committed, pleased, and high-performing employees, as well as make the organization a more efficient workplace.
Workforce Diversity Management: Biggest Challenge Or Opportunity For 21st Century Organizations
IOSR Journal of Business and Management, 2014
Management being a social discipline deals with the behavior of people and human insight. Hence, workforce diversity is the biggest challenge and at the same times the biggest opportunity for the 21st century managers. "Diversity Management" is a strategy to promote the perception, acknowledgement and implementation of diversity in organizations. Workforce diversity has significant implications for the management. The managers will be required to shift their approach from treating each group of workers alike to recognizing differences among them and following such policies so as to encourage creativity, improve productivity, reduce labor turnover and avoid any sort of discrimination. Successful diversity management policy and program will eventually make a huge difference in the communication among employees and the general productivity of the organization. Today's organization need to recognize and manage workforce diversity effectively. The study is conducted to explore how companies manage workforce diversity and its consequences to the company's existence as well as examine how companies' deal with challenges that comes with employees from diverse cultural backgrounds. Is workforce diversity related to organization performance and productivity and its effect on human resource management? The research therefore answers the question `Has workplace diversity contributed to organizational success`.
The Importance of Workforce Diversity Management as a Global Imperative – a Systematic Review
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Workforce diversity is an international phenomenon in developed and developing countries. Diversity is an issue that has gotten a lot of attention in many fields; diversity and inclusion have become accepted as a global business topic. Workplace diversity (WPD) is a holistic concept that refers to company employees’ disparities. It refers to the complex physical, sociological, and psychological characteristics characterising an individual or group, such as gender, race, sexual orientation, and religious or political beliefs. Academics and practitioners alike are paying increased attention to workforce diversity. This research aims to investigate and provide a conceptual understanding and significance of diversity, especially workplace diversity in different countries; the literature also examines their methodology to investigate workforce diversity. Also, this paper explores literature about the increasing global influence of workforce diversity and its effect on the workplace drawi...
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Workforce Diversity: A Key to Improve Productivity
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Workforce diversity means similarities and differences among employees in terms of age, cultural background, physical abilities and disabilities, race, religion, gender, and sexual orientation. No two humans are alike. People are different in not only gender, culture, race, social and psychological characteristics but also in their perspectives and prejudices. Society had discriminated on these aspects for centuries. Diversity makes the work force heterogeneous. In current scenario, employing diversified workforce is a necessity for every organization but to manage such diversified workforce is also a big challenge for management. This paper critically analyses the workforce diversity and its impact on productivity of an organization. The researcher after examining the literature and various research papers, concluded that workforce diversity is strength for any organization but people still stick to their views related to caste, religion etc and so consider diversity as a problem but if managed properly, can increase the productivity.
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In today"s competitive environment all multinational companies are trying to achieve competitive advantage and it can be achieved by well managed diverse workforce. But managing diversity is a subject of great concern as it can bring many challenges with benefits. This paper explores various aspects of diversity including diversity dimensions, diversity consequences and proper management of diverse workforce. Paper describes various types of diversity prevailed in the world"s most diverse country ie. India. It covers various diversity management practices used by top multinational companies operating in India. Paper also explains what employees perceive about diversity and how it affects organization"s competitive advantage against its competitors.