Managing Diversity in an Organization

Running Head: DIVERSITY IN AN ORGANIZATION
Diversity in an organization
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MANAGING DIVERSITY IN AN ORGANIZATION1
Introduction
Culture refers to the distinctive way an organization does its business. Culture provides a
description about the complications an organization encounters when it attempts to change and if
a supportive culture does not exist or cultivated, the change may result in counter-productive.
The organization which has a culture that operates in an environment of equality and diversity is
most profitable. The objective of the essay is to explain the equality and diversity in an
organizational culture. Further in the essay, the discussion is also based on effects of
disadvantaged group in the organization.
Response to question 1
Organizational culture includes a set of values, attitudes, beliefs, norms, customs and
personalities that defines an enterprise. Culture is a tool for managing equality and diversity in an
organization. A positive work culture gives equal opportunity to all the members to grow
professionally as well as personally. It gives equal chance to initiate and participate in the
change. A positive environmental culture encourages equality and diversity in the workplace.
Equality refers to respecting all the members on the basis of gender, age, culture, race, career
experience, skills, background, disability, marriage or public relationship, sexual orientation,
beliefs and many more. Equality gives equal chances to all the employees to participate and
progress in the workplace. This removes the barriers that hinders the growth of the individual.
Similarly, diversity refers to an organization that involves a workplace of individuals of different
age, sec, experience, pay, education and other attributes. Equality and diversity both are essential
for the growth of the organization in the competitive market.

MANAGING DIVERSITY IN AN ORGANIZATION2
When an organization hire employees from different backgrounds like different
nationalities and different culture, it helps in bringing varieties of collection of perceptions to the
organization. This leads to benefits like collaboration and better problem solving which enhances
productivity. A diverse workplace helps in understanding the customers better because many
multinationals offers their products and services on international level, so it gives appeal to
handle the customers universally. This also provides a superiority for the company to deal with
its competitors. It breaks down the language barrier because employees from different
nationalities will take the business to achieve high success. The wider talent pool brings new
innovation for the company through strong and effective brainstorming sessions, and also
encourages the employees to perform better. The organization that encourages diversity should
properly exercise equality as well as diversity management so that it gives equal opportunities to
all. Though the organization is benefited from equality and diversity but it has some barriers that
negatively affect the organization.
Diversity creates language barrier and biasness in terms of position and pay. The
employees in many organization suffers badly form the harmful effects of gender pay gap from
which women employees suffer the most. According to the worldwide statistics out of five
hundred CEOs only twenty four are female. According to the worldwide data of 2018, only 75%
companies have only one women in top management, only 24% managers are female and only
5% females are CEO of the company. There is a huge disproportion between male and female
especially in the senior manager positions. These organizations give rise to glass ceiling. Glass
ceiling acts as invisible barrier for the organization which prevents women from advancing to the
top management positions. For example, the women are prohibited from getting promotions, pay