Critical Analysis of a Diversity Policy

Critical Analysis of a Diversity Policy
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Critical Analysis of a Diversity Policy
Introduction
Organizational diversity revolves around the total composition of the organization’s
workforce and the extent to which diversity is embraced. Diversity, on the other hand,
involves the inclusions of different personality traits such as age, ethnic origin, race, gender,
marital status, religion, education, among other personal defining characteristics. Over the
recent past, business organizations have reaped quite a lot from embracing diversity in their
workplace. Organizations have stopped looking at diversity as a moral issue but an
opportunity to explore both the consumer and labor market. Diversity in the workplace not
only allows an organization to understand the demographics of the market it serves but also
gaining a competitive advantage against its rivals. In the modern business world, most of the
organizations are taking their operations global, joining the global market and this is where
diversity comes in. Diversity helps them discover untapped opportunities relating to new
customers, products, services and also raw materials. Overall, workplace diversity has
propelled organizational performance and productivity to new unimaginable heights. It is,
due to this reason, therefore, that most of the organizations worldwide have come up with a
comprehensive diversity policy to enhance equity for all the employees and discover
untapped opportunities. Honda Motor Company is one of the companies that have had a huge
global expansion, extending its operations to almost all parts of the world. That has been
made possible by stipulating a comprehensive diversity policy that has enables it not only to
see opportunities but to tap them.
Overview of the organization
Honda Motors Limited was established on 24th September 1948. The company is based in
Tokyo Japan, having a total of 208,399 employees from diverse backgrounds, get from all
over the world. The company, being a public multinational company manufactures and sells

Critical Analysis of a Diversity Policy
automobiles, aircraft, motorcycles, power equipment, among other electronics. It has
branches both nationally and internationally in countries like Turkey, Pakistan, Malaysia,
among others (Haas, 2016). It exhibits a vertical-horizontal structure in which the junior
employees learn from the senior employees whereby learning is viewed as a continuous
process. The company uses diverse diversity procedures to ensure that equity and inclusion
are maintained in the organization and that a comfortable working environment is provided.
Both the management and Human Resource department are responsible for establishing and
maintaining diversity at the workplace. The company, therefore, says, "sameness doesn't
work in a product line and doesn't work in a workforce." That explains why since the onset of
the company Honda has “brought together people from different cultures, backgrounds, races,
genders, and sexual orientations. It’s a commitment that hasn’t just created better diversity.
It’s created a better Honda.”
Diversity strategies employed by the organization
Honda motors employ several strategies not only to ensure that diversity is gotten but also
ensure that it becomes the culture of the organization and that it is maintained. One of the
strategies the company employs to establish and maintain diversity is training. The company
gives the employees insights on how they can benefit from having diverse backgrounds
(Emmens, 2017). The training also includes legal implications of the diversity cultivated
for such as harassment and discrimination. Employees are trained on how to work together as
a team and benefit from each other's experiences. The company seeks to make its employees
understand that each employee comes with diverse experience and capability. It, therefore,
encourages them to put together their diverse experiences and capabilities and work together
for the best interest of the company. Companies, according to (Jose, 2016) in most of the
times experience discrimination in terms of color, race, religion, sexual orientation, among
other aspects. Honda Motors limited, in its diversity policy, stipulates the legal actions to be