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Running head: MANAGEMENT PEOPLE AND TEAMS
MANAGEMENT PEOPLE AND TEAMS
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Introduction
As opined by Roberson (2019), the workforce of the different contemporary business
corporations had become highly diverse in nature because of the positive impact of globalization
and the employment opportunities that the business corporations to the people from minority
backgrounds. Roberson, Ryan and Ragins (2017) are of the viewpoint that unlike the earlier
times wherein it was seen that the workforce of the different business corporations was uniform
in nature in the present times it had become very diverse. More importantly, it had been seen that
the effective usage of the workforce diversity had offered different benefits to the business
corporations which they can utilize for the purpose of attaining a higher level of success or
growth (Cook & Glass, 2015).
As discussed by Goldstein Hode and Meisenbach (2017), having a diverse workforce
affords the opportunity to the business corporations to enhance the quality as well as the quantity
of the products or services offered by them by encouraging the employees to take the help of the
entities of innovation, creativity, different varieties of programing and others. Furthermore, the
employees also have the opportunity to learn new skills or knowledge from their colleagues
related to diverse backgrounds and thereby improve the quality of work that they perform
(Hawkins, 2017). This paper undertakes a critical review of the presentation, which was offered
to me by my professor, related to the topic of workplace diversity and its benefits.
Review of the Presentation
The presentation focuses on the concept of diversity and inclusion and also the likely
benefits that the business corporations have the opportunity to derive through the effective usage

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of the same. More importantly, one of the most important aspects of the presentation under
discussion here is the fact that it takes the help of the examples of the business corporations of
Toyota, Nissan and others and the manner in which they have used the construct of diversity and
inclusion within the framework of their workplaces. For instance, the speaker in the video
presentation clearly mentions the fact that the diversity within the business corporation Toyota is
only 3% in terms of percentage of women employees within the framework of the concerned
corporation. This in turn had contributed substantially towards the different issues that the
concerned corporation had faced over the years in terms of the management of its workforce and
thereby adversely affected not only the profitability of the corporation but also the growth
attained by the corporation as well. Furthermore, in order to substantial this particular argument
it is seen that the speaker in the presentation under discussion here takes the help of the example
of the business corporation Nissan which in the present times had been able to attain a substantial
amount of success through the effective usage of the construct of workplace diversity. For
example, within the workforce of the corporation Nissan it is seen that the percentage of the
women employees holding important managerial positions is more than 10% which in turn had
contributed effectively towards the diversity of the workforce of the concerned corporation.
One of the most important points that the speaker in the presentation makes is the fact
that the entity of workplace diversity allows the business corporations to take the help of the
constructs of innovation and creativity. For instance, the workers have the opportunity to gain
new knowledge or for that matter skill sets from their colleagues, which in turn is likely to
improve the quality as well as the quantity of the work that is being performed by them.
Furthermore, the presenter specially takes the help of the example of the business corporation
Nissan and also the manner in which it had been able to take advantage of the high percentage of