Opportunities and Challenges of Workplace Diversity Research 2022

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The opportunities and challenges of workplace diversity
Workplace diversity has majorly being reflected human resource management across
the globe. The trend reflects that the employers are working towards the diversity in order to
consider diverse competency within the teams and organisation. This implies investing and
initiatives taken into human resource for making or setting up their team for the purpose of
organisational success. The search reflects that considering diversity into the organisation is
one of the smart thing that an organisation could have adopted and also a more ethical way to
perform organisational operations and better for humanity. This reflect the understanding of
diversity through the research which reflect that the workplace where workforce is
intentionally being employed which comprised of various religion, gender, sexual orientation,
authenticity, attributes and education. There have been various researchers conducted towards
the diversity in the workplace where some of the benefits and some of the limitations have
been identified through the researchers.
The benefits that have been identified for diversity in the workplace include looking
out for new perspective. According to the researchers people hire from various cultures,
nationalities and backgrounds may provide a new perspective to the organisation and a better
problem-solving approach. Therefore the result reflected that the team eventually increase
their productivity while considering new perspective from diverse individuals. Another
benefit that have been identified is increase in innovation, there have been various researchers
conducted by top level companies which acknowledges workplace diversity is one of the
major cause for innovation in the organisation. In case only a particular homogeneous group
of people is being hired in an organisation the chances of innovation or reduce as we are
thinking in a similar way and unable to look out for other options and create idea. In case of
workplace diversity large variety of culture, background and attributes reflect to creative

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solutions by the individuals which also need to brainstorm activity for the individuals which
eventually reflect new idea generation. Another benefit is wider talent pool, this reflects that
the company would allow employees to challenge their peer members, feel accepted and look
out for the growth opportunities within the organisation. Through embracing workplace
diversity this could be possible and through increase in competition among the employs the
companies are eventually able to attract and retain the best talent within their organisation.
Other than this profit increment is one of the major advantage or opportunity for the company
while investing in workplace diversity. The research reflected that the financial returns are
majorly based on productivity of the organisation which is increased due to workplace
diversity. The study reflected that the diverse team is majorly responsible for better
performance and increased productivity which eventually reflect to increase in profit for the
organisation. According to McKinsey report in 2015, considering 366 public organisations
that consider racial and ethnic diversity within the management have found to be 35%
additionally preferable considering financial returns within the industry.
Considering the gender diversity at the leading position it can be said that gender
really can make a major difference in leadership, however considering various factors major
challenges has also been faced while considering gender diversity. Considering the gender
diversity at the leading position it can be said that gender really can make a major difference
in leadership, however considering various factors major challenges has also been faced
while considering gender diversity. Relation about gender and leadership reflect the research
reflecting behaviour and traits that have been determined in order to have good leadership. As
per the research that gender is impacting ways of leading which could be different for both
genders that is men and women. The empirical study reflected that there is no major
difference when it comes to gender variation in leadership. Some of the researchers have
supported the gender differences for instance they include women are more tend to use