The Impact of Workforce Diversity on Organizational Productivity in Australian Organizations

Running head: APPLIED BUSINESS RESEARCH
The impact of workforce diversity on the productivity of the Australian organization

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Abstract
The key purpose of this investigation is to address impact of workforce diversity on
organizational productivity in Australian organizations. This research report evaluated that
diversity plays a fundamental role to influence the workforce for performing the task with
each other on common goals and objectives. It is illustrated that workforce diversity can
negatively impact on Australian firm because sometimes it creates difficulties for a company
to manage the employees due to creating higher conflict among workforce at the workplace.
This research illustrated that the inductive approach would be used for generating theory
regarding research concerns. In addition, both primary and secondary data collection methods
will be used for collecting data. In addition to this, simple random sampling method will be
implemented to select a sample on a random basis. This investigation illustrated that ethical
consideration will be used to ethically complete investigation.

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Table of Contents
Abstract.................................................................................................................... 2
Research background................................................................................................... 4
Research questions and research objectives........................................................................4
Literature review......................................................................................................... 5
Research design........................................................................................................ 12
Type of research.................................................................................................... 12
Research approach................................................................................................. 12
Type of data......................................................................................................... 13
Data collection methods........................................................................................... 13
Data analysis methods............................................................................................. 14
Sampling plan....................................................................................................... 14
Ethical consideration.................................................................................................. 14
References.............................................................................................................. 16

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Research background
Workforce diversity entails the workforce, groups, people, and the community belongs to
diverse cultural background, religion, gender, age, language, abilities, education, and race. In
current times, it is becoming a strategy for a firm in order to hire different employees in order
to gain organizational productivity. Hence, the present study is conducted in terms of
comprehending the impact of workforce diversity on firm productivity of Australia. In this
research, the background of research, objectives and questions of investigation are evaluated
(Davis, Frolova, and Callahan, 2016). The study identifies that Australian firm creates
different practices for significant diverse management of employees. It could be identified
that in the nation of Australia, there are approximately 70% of companies who believed to
increase workforce diversity. Hence, workforce diversity facilitates chances to them in terms
of recruiting best talent within a firm in Australia (Dalton, D'Netto, and Bhanugopan, 2015).
In year of 2018, employees diversity upsurges regarding 50% revenues of the firm. An
investigator also depicted that workforce diversity can lead to gain organizational
productivity. The main cause is that each workforce is specialized in their field that supports
the company to facilitate sound judgments as well as, views related to the research concern.
An investigator has described that in the nation of Australia, there are 80% of company that
facilitates quality products as well as, increases the chance due to diverse employees
(Sharma, 2016).
Research questions and research objectives
Research Questions
RQ1: Discuss problems faced through firms in Australia about diversity management among
workforces?
RQ2: What practices do organizations apply for managing diverse employees?