DIVERSITY ANALYSIS

The Impact of Increased Diversity in the Workplace

The Impact of Increased Diversity in the Workplace

Introduction

Many organizations are working to create an effective environment through which they could provide a diversified environment for their workers. Thus, it is necessary to develop training materials on managing diversity and equality in the workplace. Its overall aim is to increase the capacity of employers' organizations and other associations representing businesses to help them and assist them in creating or improving efforts on these elements in the workplace, so that this would channel the potential of a workplace characterized by diversity and equality between the sexes (Brief, 2008). Workplace diversity refers to the variety of differences between people in an organization. Diversity encompasses race, gender, ethnic group, age, personality, cognitive style, tenure, organizational function, education, background and much more.

With rapid globalization, diversity in the work place is also increasing. The work force of any organization or company is the most vital assets as they carry the bulk of the work in terms in terms of service delivery and productivity. By analyzing the impact of diversity in the work place, this research will be able to come up with insightful information on why some companies are more successful than others. In this paper, we are going to discuss the impact of increased diversity on employees as well as the organization. On broader aspect, we will assess the extent of diversity in productivity and success of a company or organization, the benefits of diversity in the work place (Herring, 2009).

Literature review

The success of a company based on people who are part of it. In action, diversity and equality are the pillars of growth and social progress that structure their corporate philosophy. Much organization has backed the creation of ethical values and principles for the promotion of equal opportunities in all aspects of people management. It also has programs in place, internal procedures and, actions to create a working environment free from discrimination of any kind and to promote diversity. An ongoing dialogue ensures the application of these values with social partners (Kochan, 2002). This dialogue can be translated into the achievement of important milestones in the field of equality and diversity, including the development of female employment in sectors with little representation, the integration of people with disabilities and marginalize groups, among others. In order, to include diversity in this study we start by a concept of what mean by diversity.

When we talk about diversity, we talk about gender diversity, age diversity, cultural diversity or diversity training, and the impact it has for the dynamics and effectiveness of work teams. Diversity scholars believe that this has two sides, positive and negative. Different people working together, discussing the variety of thoughts and ideas on innovation and decision making are some of the issues they consider this diversity as something positive. By contrast, the most pessimistic, consider that these diverse groups, the high turnover and difficulties in achieving acceptable social integration among members of the team put in ...