Assignment

Assignment

Introduction

The term diversity is one that allows us to indicate, mark, or talk about the variety and difference that may have some things to each other. Companies have an interest in reflect the diversity of the society in which they operate. The same way that mixing men or women at work is, in fact, a dynamic factor and a stimulator of social performance, diversity is not compassion but of the economic and office of the company. In most of the countries, companies have placed the management of diversity at the heart of their strategy, are aware that the diversity in our societies has become an advantage both economically and socially, whose impact is felt on the creativity and competitiveness. It seeks to enhance the competence and nothing else. In this essay we are going to summarize four articles which are based on the understanding of importance of diversity for an organization.

Discussion

Summary of Article # 1 (Main Article)

The name of this article is “A ?eld study of group diversity, workgroup context, and performance”. This article was written by Karen A., Jehn And Katerina Bezrukova. It is published in the year 2004 in the journal of Organizational behavior. It is also published online in Wiley InterScience website or platform. In this article as name suggest the author explained and discussed diversity. This article explores and explains the organizational workgroup context and its effect on the relationship between the diversity of group and other factors and results of performance. In this article, author claims that organizational diversity is the most important factor when the leaders of any organization want to take the organization in worlds different markets. It provides the organization to enjoy multiple benefits such as low cost of labor and many other benefits. Many professionals claim diversity as a step toward success (Shweder, 2002, P 365-395).

This article focuses that organizations through implementing diversity policy in workforce achieve many benefits that prove very helpful in improving its competitiveness and also provide improvements in productivity and performance of organization. In addition with this, the organization also enjoys following benefits if implementing workforce diversity. Some benefits are also explained in this article. The author explains first and most important benefit received by the organization is that it receives creativity and brainstorming in their organization. The diversity allows peoples from different cultures and from different regional backgrounds to work together for the goals of the organization. These different cultural background peoples have different and unique ideas and experiences for any respective point according to their own culture, which creates a sense of creativity in the process and product of the organization as it involves thinking of peoples relating to different cultural background. This is the best approach in engineering and IT organization also according to many professionals of some very effective brands of the world.

This article also explains the context of organization and explains this word as a context that surrounds or encircles the text (= with text) but its use is extended to ...