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Diversity Management
In HRManagement, you have the ability to set hiring targets and add an affirmative action program in order to meet diversity goals in your firm. But diversity management is more than just picking targets and spending money. It requires that all employees be aware of their differences and learn to work together. In this exercise, you will explore some of the diversity issues you will deal with as an HR manager.
1. Why is diversity management important in a firm?
2. Identify three to five different kinds of employees at a typical mid-sized firm.
3. What incentives/benefits are important to each of the groups you identified?
4. Describe a scenario where employees from two different groups might have a problem communicating.
5. How might collaboration among the groups improve a service or product?
6. Come up with three ways to improve and manage diversity in the firm.
1. Diversity management is very important for a firm for following points
a. It gives access to larger talent pool one of the biggest advantages of having diversity in values.
b. Team works in complex environment and diversity helps to draw varied experiences of fellow from diverse backgrounds
c. Organisational productivity and reduced discrimination - It not only helps organisation to create better goodwill but also increase the productivity of the firm
Answer to question 2 and 3 are written together
Three employees identified are as follows
1. A person of age 23
2. A person from different religion say Muslim
3. A person from different country say France
The benefits or incentives that the following person will get are
1 - The person will get exposure from experienced personnel working in the organisation
2 - The person will get to understand other religion and make others understand about his
3 - The person will get to knwo about different culture, their festivals, language etc.
Answer to Question 4
A scenario lets say a quiz is organised by the organisation and people from different groups have to formulate a team to participate in the quiz compulsorily. In this scenario if the people from different groups have never interacted with each other they may face problem communicating while the contest is conducted.
Another scenario where a report is to be generated with the help of Finance Team and Business Team. Now if people from both the groups do not speak common tongue or have not taken steps to understand each other and respect the diversity then they will face communicating issue