Question

EXPLAIN THE CONCEPT OFBEST PRACTICE AND WHAT IT MEANS IN THE CONCEPT OF DIVERSITY STRATEGY WHAT ARE THE CHALLENGES OF DEVELOPING AND IMPLEMENTING BEST PRACTICES WHAT ARE THE POTENTIAL BENEFITS

Answer 1

Concept of best practice:

The concept of best practice is the concept in which one out of a number of concepts is taken as being superior than other concepts. This concept is understood as the best practice since it would be producing better results than the other alternative approaches. This becomes the standard of the way in which things are done and as a result forms the standard of doing things. The best practices carry out maintanence of quality as well as standards and form the bench mark of assessments. Best practice has been accredited as the feature of standards of management example: the ISO 9000 as well as the ISO 14001.

Challenges in developing and implementing best practices:

• Who decides if the practice is the best practice.
• Complete evidences supporting the best practice.
• Theoretical implementation bridging the gap between the research carried out and field implementation of the research.
• Acceptance among all the professionals.
• Biases and personal assumptions with regard to the same method.

Benefits of applying best practice methods:

- standardisation in the system

- a basis to compare the results with eliminating biases

- an idea bout expected outcomes.

- evidence based practices.