Diversity in the workplace
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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4LITERATURE REVIEW................................................................................................................5Concept of diversity in workplace...............................................................................................5Types of diversity........................................................................................................................7Impact of diversity on the operations of retail business organization........................................8Difficulties which are facing by retail business units in managing diversity at workplace......10Strategies that can be undertaken by Tesco to manage diversity..............................................10DISCUSSION................................................................................................................................12CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................14REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................17
INTRODUCTIONDiversity in the workplace is one of the critical part of business operations. In themodern competitive environment it has become essential aspect and corporations are usingdiversity programs in the workplace frequently in order to sustain in the corporate market forlonger duration (Liang, Shih and Chiang, 2015). Cultural diversity is major player in theorganization that supports in increasing satisfactions level of workers and making them loyaltowards the brand. It consists of several elements such as age, culture, religion, social status andgender. In the modern business words enterprises are recruiting different individuals in theworkplace that creates multicultural and multiracial dynamic environment in the organization.That supports in generating innovative ideas that can be used by the management for thedevelopment of company (Benschop and et.al, 2013). Diversity in the workplace impact positiveand negative on the workplace. Due to language barriers and cultural difference people feelunable to make communication with the peer group. That creates the situation ofmisunderstanding and enhance conflict situation in the workplace. It is very essential to adopteffective strategies by the management so that diversity can give optimistic outcome to theentities. Whenever firm plans to enter into global market then it has to identify the culturalbackground of particular place so that it can train its staff members accordingly. That helps inminimizing the miscommunication issues and helps in increasing revenues of the companies.Some people think that female are not capable to work in the officially environment that createssituation of discrimination (Chua, 2013). It is necessary to provide equal opportunities to the manand female so that skilled people can stay in the organization for long er duration. Present report is based on the Tesco which is leading retailer and working well in theglobal market. Cited firm is serving millions of consumers every day. Organization hirescandidate from different locations and cultural background. It understands the advantage ofskilled persons and pay more focus on experience or skill rather than culture, race or gender.Diversity, equal opportunities are central of the cited firm (Y. Lacey and Groves, 2014). Tesco ishaving mixture of several age group persons that brings broad range of knowledge in theworkplace. Management treats equally to all age group persons because older are having
experience and youngster are having innovative ideas. Combination of different age groupalways give optimistic results to the organization. Key purpose of Tesco is to create value forcustomers in order to increase their loyalty so that they buy products from the cited firm.Managing diverse workforce is the important factor and that cannot be avoided by the bigorganizations (McPhail, McNulty and Hutchings, 2016). Effective management of diversityencourages creativity and brings innovative ideas that can help in enhancing workingperformance of company. Present study will critical review the importance and impact ofdiversity in the workplace. In addition to this several management strategies will be discussedthat can help in overcoming issues of diversity in the company (Hammers and et.al, 2014). Aim:“To investigate impact of diversity in workplace; study of Tesco”.Objectives:To understand the conceptual framework of diversity in workplace.To investigate types of diversity in the organizationsTo identify the impact of workplace diversity in Tesco.To understand challenges faced by the firm in diversity in workplace.To suggest strategies that can help in managing diversity in the workplace of Tesco. LITERATURE REVIEW Concept of diversity in workplaceWith the changing environment of the business, owner are involved in making adoptionof the diversity policies and strategies that assist in appealing their employees, clients, vendors aswell as suppliers. In accordance with the views of Bond and Haynes, (2014) it has beenexamined that diversity in the workplace is bringing with the host of greater benefits andpotential disputes for the owners of the firm in order to manage. Diversity within the place ofwork is regarded as essential aspect of sound management of the individuals. It is related withvaluation of each one within the firm as an individual. Effectiveness in the diversity strategygoes beyond legal compliance as well as seeks at adding value to the firm and has greatercontribution towards benefit of the employee, their well being as well as engagement. Theconcept of diversity is regarded as the value of the deviations among the individuals and themanner in which such differences can effectively make contribution towards richer, morecreative as well as more productive environment working.
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