Workforce diversity is a better experience
2nd April 2023
Employee diversity
Under a single roof there can be employees with various differences in terms of culture, gender, age, experience, ethnicity, education etc. Workforce diversity lead to share better experience with staff in organization and promote to build up a strong and more successful team.
“Diversity requires a type of organizational culture in
which each employee can pursue his or her career aspirations without being
inhibited by gender, race, nationality, religion, or other factors that are
irrelevant to performance”. (Bryan, 1999)
“Subsumed all these points under the definition of diversity
as “any significant difference that distinguishes one individual from another”,
covering a wide variety of factors that might be obvious to other individuals
or hidden under the surface”. (s. Kreitz
2008, p. 102)
Opportunities with Workforce diversity
Employee diversity promote more advantages for the organization. This will affect to wellbeing of the organization and also career growth of employees.
- Increase creativity and innovations
- When people come from different environments, cultures and experiences, it is leading to share fresh ideas, modern methods. This will increase efficiency of operation in the organization.
2. Comfort for decision making
- People from different background can be consisted with various information and can have faced for different business challenges. It may facilitate for getting proper decisions.
- Through a more diversity, organization ability to catch human resources with different talents.
- People with difference experiences and knowledge may lead to practice various technologies and methods for performing tasks. Hence Organization able to get in more quality output.
- With workforce diversity, organization relationship, social network become border and also increase the customer's attraction.
Challenges with workforce diversity
With the diversity among workforce, there may have a
critical side to the organization. The organization that is able to manage
challenges with workforce diversity will attract more benefits to achieve their
goals.
Challenges with workforce diversity,
- Lack of communication
- Due to differences in language and communication patterns lead to make misunderstand among employees and conflict within the organization.
- With the diversity of age, culture, language and other personal characteristics, there can be a gap between thinking patterns, ideas. Hence this will lead to create discrimination within employees.
- This can be happened with differences in values, beliefs and attitudes.
- Some organizations are facing this problem with their industry, due to demographical barriers and cultural barriers avoid people from entering some industries.
- This can be affected to employees directly and it will be a reason for isolating some employees, Hence it will lead to decrease employee’s commitments and job satisfaction.
Managing challenges with workforce diversity 
Workforce diversity consist with more advantages and challenges.
The organization needs to filter those advantages and challenges carefully.
When managing diversity in workforce, the organization always keep in sensitive
with employees and behaviors of them. Organizations should practice to manage
this subject in strategical manner. As per Dass and Parker, 1999, “There is no
single best way to manage workforce diversity. In most cases, the approach used
by a firm depends on the amount of pressure for diversity, the type of
diversity in question, and managerial attitudes”. Difference Strategies can be implemented
for controlling challenges related to diversity successfully. Some of them are encouraging
for open communication, celebrating diversity, language buildup programs and so
on. Through these strategies, can be made a strength workforce. Hence workforce
diversity is a better experience and factor for achievements of organizations.
Conclusion
Reference
- Bryan JH (1999). "The diversity imperative", Executive Excellence, pp.6.
- Kreitz, P. A. (2008). Best practices for managing organizational diversity. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 34, 101–120.
- Dass, P., & Parker, B. (1999). Strategies for Managing Human Resource Diversity: From Resistance to Learning. The Academy of Management Executive (1993-2005), 13(2), 68-80.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHYuDDHvU64 (Acess on 4/3/2023)
Social media has contributed to the understanding of cultures and getting people closer which has helped HR to have multicultural and diverse teams in an organisation. Good article
ReplyDeleteYou right, At present more benefits able to feel through social media.
DeleteYes, workforce diversity is essential for an organization as it brings a variety of perspectives, experiences, and ideas to the table, which can lead to increased creativity, innovation, and problem-solving. Embracing diversity can also help to attract and retain top talent, enhance the organization's reputation, and better connect with customers and stakeholders from diverse backgrounds. Well done. Keep writing.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Even some challenges are generated with workforce diversity, there are so many advantages to organization.
DeleteHi Lalindu, You have explained well, and we can learn a lot in a short period of time. These are just five of the benefits of embracing and prioritizing diversity in the workplace. These are new perspectives, a wider talent pool, more innovation, better employee performance, and increased profits.
ReplyDeleteThank you very much!!! Overall, embracing and prioritizing diversity in the workplace is not only the right thing to do, but it also makes good business sense. By fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace culture, organizations can create a more productive, innovative, and profitable environment for all employees.
DeleteGreat article! Workforce diversity can definitely bring numerous advantages to organizations, such as increased creativity, better decision-making, and a stronger customer base. However, there are also some challenges that need to be addressed, such as communication barriers and discrimination within employees. By managing these challenges strategically and promoting open communication and celebrating diversity, organizations can turn workforce diversity into a strength.
ReplyDeleteDiversity is one of the key area of sustainability within the organization. while trying to achevie one goal and one strategic plan every year the whole organization made of different colors ethnics and cultures and behaviours are the key to understand by its own employees to retain successfull towards end. good insights disucssed and nicely done article. good luck.
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