1MANAGEMENT Week 9 - Diversity & inclusion in action In this era of high competition between the organizations, it is highly crucial for the organizations to understand the importance of diversity in workplace. One of the crucial aspects of ensuring diversity within the organization is inclusion of employees who are minorities. It is highly crucial for multicultural organizations to incorporate diversity practices that tend to address both equality as well as fairness. According to researches, the three chief paradigm associated with diversity in the workplace includes discrimination and fairness, access and legitimacy and learning and effectiveness (Buse, Bernstein & Bilimoria, 2016). The first paradigm ensures and equity for all the employees in order to relevant discrimination on the basis o age gender sexual orientation or race. When it comes to the second paradigm, ot is defined as a market based response to the diversity. According to researchers, employing candidates from different cultural background enhances the access as well as legitimacy of the organization within the market (Mor Barak, 2015). During this pint, organizations try to reflect societal diversity. The third paradigm goes further and seeks the connection between different backgrounds, experiences as well as insights of the diverse workforce for enhancing the overall business of the form. Researchers have pointed out how prejudice and discrimination results in conflicts within the organization and as a result attrition of skilled workforce. Conflict between he employees reduces the productivity as well as reputation of the organization. On the other hand employee attrition reduces the competitive advantage of the same.
2MANAGEMENT Reference List Buse, K., Bernstein, R. S., & Bilimoria, D. (2016). The influence of board diversity, board diversitypoliciesandpractices,andboardinclusionbehaviorsonnonprofitgovernance practices.Journal of Business Ethics,133(1), 179-191. MorBarak,M.E.(2015).Inclusionisthekeytodiversitymanagement,butwhatis inclusion?.Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership & Governance,39(2), 83- 88.