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In present years, diversity has come into consideration of the organizational work culture
and play an essential role in corporate life. It happens only because of the increasing
consequence of the globalization, greater workforce diversity and the expanding complexity of
jobs. The concept of diversity encloses both acceptance and respect. Each individual is unique,
that is the understanding of the central stance. Also, it can recognize individual difference. It
depicts along dimensions of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, socio-economic status,
age, religious beliefs, physical abilities, political beliefs or other ideologies. It is about reliability
and compatibility of each other and moving beyond simple tolerance to embracing and
celebrating the rich dimensions of diversity. The diversity theory suggests the degree of
heterogeneity among team members on specified demographic aspects; it aims how this
heterogeneity affects the efficiency and performance (Hays-Thomas 2016). Diversity should be
accepted in the way of different perspective and approaches to the workplace. So it can be said
that workplace diversity is not a simple study of some empirical data, instead of that it is all
about the understanding and acceptability. It has been observed that the first stage of
implementation draw the biggest challenge for any management and the barriers that usually
arise from the insecurity and pre-determined notions which the employee bore in their minds.
Many organization operate based on “color-blindness” theory which is treating all staff equally
irrespective of their skin color. The main intentions lead to encourage among the employee.
Without absorption the implementing of the diversity theory, various culture and without
knowing it is very difficult to understand equality. Adjacently the initial cost of the mandatory
training which used to provide to each employee on how to manage workplace diversity is very
high.

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This paper provides some in-depth understanding of diversity, its role and strategies and
issues in the concern of multicultural work environment.
Overview of the case study:
This paper encompasses a case study of HardEdge Solutions, a software service
Australian based company also has a presence in Pakistan. It has been running of 12 years ahead.
It has been checked that the company has faced some workplace diversity issue. Generally, it is
examined that when diversity issue comes into consideration, demographic dilemma plays a vital
role within the employee. The same problems are also happening in this case also. Recently the
company employ three hundred regional staff in Pakistan office of which a hundred employees
were from Australia. This demographic changes may cause a workplace diversity (Giudice
2017). Workplace diversity is an essential part of the success of any organization in general.
Setting up a diverse work environment is key to break the social barriers and generating equal
opportunities to all the employees. Some of the legislation currently protects diversity in the
workplace. Equality Act 2006 has built up a body known as the Commission for Equality and
Human Rights. It acts suggests that the general duty of this body is to encourage and support the
development of the society in respects of human rights and to prevent them from prejudices and
discrimination. The Equality Act 2010 clearly states that the employer discriminates against job
applicants or employees during their employment. So after scrutinizing the case, it can be clearly
depicted that the case does not follow the rules and provisions that legitimate the workplace
diversity. It has been seen that the issue regarding diversification has raised especially in
Pakistan office since some of the employee were from Australian background. Instead of higher
turnover in Pakistan the employees has been paid out at very low and average rate, particularly to

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the female employee. This case also state some critical problems regarding diversity like work-
life issues of employees, inequality in the application of work life practice, gender biasness, lack
of support. The reason of such issues arises is no wellbeing policy that company has adopted.
They did not have a proper diversity management strategy.
Issues in the Case Study
This study finds some issues regarding diversity in the workplace; HR manager
conducted a survey with the support of system manager in Pakistan to trace out the work culture
and the productivity in both the place that is Australia and Pakistan. The survey found such
issues like a lack of understanding by local supervisors which tells the (Matthew and Dauda
2015) work-life problem with the employees. (Hakim 2016) Since hundreds of the employee are
posted in Pakistan, so they cannot adopt their culture, their phenomena of work-life are getting
misbalance. Generally, there is a gap in coordination by the local supervisors. It may lead a
challenge to Work life practice. (Boehm and Dwertmann 2015). The company expand their work
and presence base on some model and policies that they have adopted already but issues of
diversity have arisen very generally because of the absence of diversity management policy in
the organization. Since the company has multiple presences automatically, they have a
diversification work platform. A multicultural worker is working over there. Since The HR
manager was recruited a good number of people in Pakistan who are actually from the Australian
domain, it automatically arises inequality in the application of work-life platform between
Australia and Pakistan (Rice 2015). Out of three hundred people has been posted in Pakistan, of
which twenty per cent was female. So it can be seen that the incorporation of the supervisor has
dominated female employee. Even if the Pakistan branch has got a good number of turnover,
particularly that female staff got paid average salary, it leads very harmful to their work-life and