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Essay on Diversity in Leadership

   

Added on  2020-03-16

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Running Head: WORKING WITH DIVERSITY AND CONFLICTWorking with Diversity and conflictName of the StudentName of the University Author Note

1WORKING WITH DIVERSITY AND CONFLICTThe aim of the essay is to critically analyse the topic, “Diversity in leadership within afirm allows managers to bring in new skills and methods for achieving unity within their teamsand develop a strong culture.” The statement is critically analysed regarding CSR, leadership andHRM practices within an organisation. The essay briefs the bias that might contribute to thedecrease in productivity. The essay recommends the way to eradicate the same in the culture.The term bias refers to the situation where people are drawn to others with same hobbies. Inregards to the organisational context, it might affect resume screening and career advancement.Bias treatment largely effects the motivation of the staff and their morale. It also influences thecommitment of the employees and the desire to advance in the organisation. Thus, the purpose ofthe essay is to understand why business needs to consider diversity and conflict in their business.Australia is popular as the multicultural society. Therefore, the workplace comprises ofminorities, immigrant and non-immigrant workers, contract workers from other countries, morewomen, limited English-speaking workers, non-English speaking workers, and older workers.These workers have varied needs and expectations, and it may be challenging for themanagement as they have different skill sets. Ignoring the differences in the workplace leads toconflicts, confusion, complaints of harassments and eventually discrimination. It may hamper theteam unity. It becomes difficult for the management to communicate and coordinate with suchdiverse group (Allard et al. 2017). Thus, it is essential to respect the diversity to develop astrong culture. Intercultural leadership allows managers to bring in new skills and methods forachieving unity within their teams.Diversity in leadership within the firm is important for managers due to shift in theworkplace demographics and the emergence of the global market. Workplace diversity has comeclose to the business necessity. Lack of workplace diversity leads to bias, that is getting attracted

2WORKING WITH DIVERSITY AND CONFLICTto employees of the same culture, caste, and language. In many cases, business opportunitieswere found to be missed as they failed to capitalise on the mixture of genders, ages and lifestyles(Canas and Sondak 2013). When employees without the language and cultural skills arerecruited, it will lead to the decrease in productivity and build a strong culture. Other aspects ofbias are stereotypes attitude towards particular culture, discrimination of women professionallyand bias in giving feedback (Dunham 2017). More than conscious prejudice, unconscious bias ismore predominant. HR managers in many cases were found to show bias in the hiring process,granting leaves, thus developing the unproductive workforce. For instance, a stereotype thatblack women are “aggressive”, decrease staff morale. The pay gap and lawsuits are some of theconsequences of bias (Koch et al. 2015). In my personal experience, my maternal aunt wasdiscriminated regarding promoting to higher designation despite being competent. Without including diverse talent, creative ideas it is difficult to sustain competitiveadvantage. It is difficult to offer more solutions to the customers due to lack of ideas. There willbe no scope for creativity, if employers are biased to take opinion and perspectives, fromemployees of similar background and culture (Guillaume et al. 2017). As per the findings ofHarvey and Allard (2015), when heterogeneous groups are present in the organisation, there is anincrease in creativity due to the cross fertilisation of one another. Therefore, to achieve onecommon goal an intercultural leadership can bring in the variety of solutions. For instance,Chinese workers working in the Australian company can think different from Australians.Consequently, it will lead to innovation. Thus, diversity in leadership is essential for managers asthe social identity of an employee effect relationship with employees. Transformational leadersare effective in this aspect as they walk the talk and literature evidence say that it is effective in

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