Assignment: Diversity in the Workplace

Individual design of a
professional workshop

Table of Contents
PART 1: INTRODUCTION............................................................................................................1
PART 2: PRACTICAL ACTIVITY................................................................................................2
PART 3: CONCLUSION................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

PART 1: INTRODUCTION
Diversity refers to the condition of having or being consists of differing elements. The
concept of diversity encompasses acceptance and respect. Each individual is unique and they
must be recognise by their individual difference (Barak, 2016). In short diversity means different
kinds of people irrespective of their caste, creed, religion and culture live together in the society
in peace and harmony. In organisational context, diversity refers to the wide range of people of
different religion, culture and belief joined together and work collaboratively in order to
accomplish the common goals and objectives of the organisation (Djabi and Shimada, 2017).
Workplace diversity refers to the variety of individual differences in an organisation. There are
ample of benefits associated with diversity in work place for instance diversity aid in providing
wide pool of talent to the organisation, it enhances shared values within a company, it increases
the level of innovation and quality of work within an organisation (Levy et.al., 2018).
Despite of having many benefits there are some challenges which faced by managers and
management of organisation while dealing with diverse people. In this context, the following
report will examine the challenges and opportunities associated with working with diverse
people. Nowadays every organisation is open for selecting diverse candidates as they come with
new ideas that can assist the organisation in enhancing their productivity and profitability (Singh,
2018). Organisations that commits recruiting a diverse workforce have a greater pool of
applicants to choose from. It can provide more qualified candidates which are appropriate for
specific job and thus it helps in reducing the time of company and management (Wrench, 2016).
Employers believes that working with diverse employees helps in increasing the productivity of
the organisation as diverse employees' comes with different ideas (Saxena, 2014). Diverse
background employees imbue corporations with creative ideas and perspectives which
demonstrated by their cultural experience. Though there are some challenges and issues that
managers faced while managing diversified workforce (Hunt, Layton and Prince, 2015).
Acceptance and respect is one of the biggest challenge faced by the managers while working
with diverse workforce.
Conflicts arises when there is a lack of acceptance of culture diversity and beliefs among
employees. Diversity in cultural, spiritual and political beliefs can pose a challenge in a diverse
workplace (Guillaume et.al., 2017). Many managers have contends that some of the individuals
hold prejudice against people who have different ethnic, cultural and religious backgrounds as
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