Question

In our society, we have people from many other countries with many different backgrounds, education, culture, and skills. As such, they can be identified in many different diverse group sets. Diversity is referred to as, “A characteristic of a group or organization whose members differ from one another along one or more important dimensions, such as age, gender, or ethnicity” (Griffin, 2016, p. 244). As businesses hire people to help in the manufacturing of goods or the provision of services, they can benefit or be faced with conflict from these diverse group sets.

Discuss the benefits of diversity and identify how individuals and organizations can effectively manage diversity.

Answer 1

Diversity at the workplace has become the most contentious subject in order to improve workplace productivity and created a diverse culture at the workplace which promotes efficiency through a more inclusive work environment and innovation.

A diverse organization tends to have certain benefits from diversity at the workplace, these benefits come in the form of a better work environment at the workplace, more inclusive culture at the workplace, more innovative team. Diversity helps in attracting a greater and better talent pool in the organization. Diversity can be in terms of gender, race, religion, or ethnicity. A culturally diverse workplace also brings in some issues like an increase in internal conflict. But the workplace can become better by having a greater level of emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence helps in understanding the other team members in a better way and it leads to the optimum team cohesion and the team's achieve better performance standards. IF required the training on the behavioral and emotional intelligence can be designed and given to the team members. The benefits of diversity are far higher than the issues it may create at the workplace.