Assignment On Workplace Diversity In Contemporary Organizations

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Annotated Bibliography
Workplace Diversity in Contemporary Organizations
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8/11/2019

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Annotated Bibliography
Introduction
The paper is focused on business communication while including an annotated
bibliography. In this context, with the help of this discussion, an application of academic,
research and communication skills will be demonstrated. In addition to that, a critical analysis
of academic materials on the topic of diversity within an organizational context will be done
in both academic and business context. This paper will address a contemporary
organizational issue while applying research skills in order to identify, select and analyze in
the form of an annotated bibliography. To do so, workplace diversity within modern
organizations is being selected as a contemporary organizational issue of this era. Thus, after
critically analyzing academic journals relevant to the chosen topic, a summary will be
provided in the later section of this paper.
Workplace Diversity in Contemporary Organizations
The paper is all about diversity and leadership within this evolving world. The authors
suggested that academics of leadership have regularly addressed the diversity of
organizational leaders as well as followers in terms of gender, culture, race, sexual orientation
and ethnicity. Apart from this, the paper has highlighted some most provocative aspects of
contemporary leadership. For instance, the limited number of entrée of people from diverse
identity groups to different leadership roles can be seen as a contemporary issue in this
modern world. Besides, the formation of leaders’ behavior from their dual identities being
leaders as well as members of racial, ethnic, gender or other identity groups is again an
organizational issue. The authors of this article have suggested measures to address such
issues. In this context, the joining of the two bodies of research and theory is able to enrich
both domains of knowledge. Therefore, effective leadership offers guidelines for optimizing
leadership within contemporary nations and organizations.

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This article emphasized on juggling differences and sameness while including
rethinking strategies for workplace diversity within modern organizations. in this way,
authors have majorly highlighted consequences from policies, practices and the management
of workplace diversity within modern organizations. Besides, in this article diversity is
supposed to be adopted in terms of inclusiveness and justice. The authors have suggested that
embracing all talent is necessary to reach out to diverse groups which conventionally were
not elements of the core of the organizations. In this way, it was proposed that contextualize
and re-theorize above phenomena is essential for dealing with diversity through connecting
contiguity, strategic essentialism, and space or time relations for exemplifying the hidden
mechanisms of the organizational power dimensions convoluted. In this way, the study has
concluded many important facts and learning related to modern strategies in relation to
diversity in contemporary organizations.
This study has included an introduction to the specific issue on leadership and diversity in
contemporary organizations. It has been observed that leadership theories have neglected
many diversity issues. For instance, in the US, and in other nations the population is
becoming increasingly diverse hence workplace diversity is increasing proportionately. It
means that paying attention to the expectations and perceptions of diverse leaders through
diverse followers has become essential. Finally, authors have suggested that leadership
theories require to be expanded for incorporating diversity for the 21sr century among new
emerging global issues, social contexts, as well as changing population demographics.
This research study is all about slums, spirituality, and space in the context of
religious diversity in contemporary Brazil. The article has highlighted the effects of changing
religious connections. Subsequently, the impacts of such changes for the Brazilian society
have been discussed in detail. Moreover, the researchers suggested that Brazil’s spiritual shift

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might bring significant cultural and political changes, especially in the impoverished urban
communities. In addition to that, this research paper has considered the socio-spatialities of
religious diversity as well as changes into Brazil’s contemporary urban land with the help of
favela community case study in North-eastern Brazil.
This journal article is all about lessons from the contemporary challenges and
leadership theory of modern leaders. The authors suggested that academic literature with
leadership theories may seem difficult sometimes for organizational practitioners. In this
context, for understanding complex concepts, obscure terms and their enormousness first of
all contemporary challenges and issues of modern leaders must be understood. In this way,
the major drive of this article is to critically assess the main findings of the contemporary
organizational leadership literature while identifying significant overarching insights.
This study is emphasized on diversity, voice, as well as silence in 21st-century
administrations. Besides, the authors have included several strategies for inclusion of lesbian,
bisexual, gay as well as transgender employees within contemporary organizations. The
article suggests that employee voice in modern organizations has been hugely examined
being a universal concept within non-unionized as well as unionized settings, with
unsatisfactory attention to the workplace diversity of organizational people. In this way, the
paper identified some of the challenging consequences of this silencing and thereby proposed
ways into which the voices of GLBT employees as well as unseen minorities can be
addressed. Finally, specific recommendations have been provided for the modern HR
managers for facilitating the expression of the voice of GLBT employees within the modern
era of increasingly diverse organizations.

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The selected article is all about intercultural management as a trend of the
contemporary globalized world. The paper discussed on contemporary trends in the field of
intercultural management as well as underlined the major concepts which both corporations
and academicians should focus on. The authors found that the workplaces are becoming more
diverse and hence intercultural and culture management gained more importance with time.
Besides, increased challenges are present when organizations move to new and culturally
different locations. In this way, the study presented a twofold challenge for modern
corporations while underlining the main need in order to focus on intercultural management.
In this paper, a discussion about post-multiculturalism took place while changing
communities, conditions as well as contexts of diversity within organizations. The article
addressed issues related to changing public discourses surrounding multi-culturalism. Apart
from this, the characteristics of new forms of immigration along with its impacts on
multicultural theories have been discussed. In the context of diversity in modern workplaces,
the author discussed different relationships of immigrants with their origin countries. In this
way, the study explained the post-multiculturalism pattern and issues related to this in
modern organizations.
This article is contained theories and learning related to cultural intelligence within
contemporary organizations. As we know that cultural diversity is huge all across the world,
hence cultural intelligence is the way to solve and address all issues related to cultural
diversity at modern organizations. The authors suggested that management in recent
organizations should encourage cultural intelligent environment at workplaces so as to incur
growth in modern organizations. Apart from this, cultural intelligence (CI) has been
discussed in the context of different scenarios within companies of this digital world. In this
way, CI was highlighted as an effective tool to manage cultural and cross-cultural barriers
while working in an organizational setting.

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The chosen study is all about social cohesion, migration as well as cultural diversity
being the huge issues in contemporary organizational settings. In this context, the author
suggests that three issues can pose many challenges in an organization, and these three
challenges may include migration, cultural diversity and social cohesion. While talking about
organizational challenges, issues, and barriers in the modern context, the article covered so
many useful solutions in the context of people management within today’s workplaces. It has
been found that social cohesions and cultural diversity management can be used for
managing diversity in an effective manner in order to foster organizational growth and
development in the long-term.
Conclusion
In whole, this annotated bibliography has been discussed many issues related to
modern organizations from the perspective of critically analysing them to address effectively.
With the help of academic, research and communication skills various issues related to
diversity in organizations have been discussed and thereby addressed well.