Workplace Diversity Assignment Report

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Workplace
Diversity
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2019

WORKPLACE DIVERSITY 1
Forms of Workplace Diversity
Workplace diversity is an important aspect of the organization which aims to recruit
the people from varied culture, religion, language and education (Roberson, 2019). It is
considered to be an important part of human resource strategy that strive to enhance the
goodwill of the organization. Here, the essay will discuss my personal experiences in order to
identify forms of diversity that can affect the organization positively or negatively. Lastly,
actions are discussed in order to improve the effectiveness at the workplace.
As per my experience when I was working in the organization as a manager, I focused
on the development of diverse workforce that has enabled my organization to get various
intangible benefits. I have made efforts to include several kinds of people who have different
cultural and religious backgrounds as it will help me in getting different kinds of opinions
which had contributed to the effective decision making at the workplace. Moreover, diversity
promotes creativity and faster decision making at the organization (Byrd, 2018).
Specifically, when I was working into the organization, I had come across an incident
wherein I was benefitted by the employment of on employee who was working into my
organization and it positively affected my organization. The employee was from Christian
religion which gave me huge knowledge about the culture of Christians and ultimately helped
my organization to deal with the customers in an effective way.
Further, there are different forms of diversity that can arise at the workplace.
Specifically, diversity can take place in the form education in which the organization strives
to make the human resource strategy to get the qualified personnel (Van Knippenberg &
Mell, 2016). Culture is another form in which the diversity can be ensured by the
involvement with the people who have different cultural backgrounds which can ultimately
help in the dealing with the different kinds of customers. Further, diversity can be undertaken
in the form of gender in which the organization strives to ensure the equality between the
men and women which promotes the equality in terms of gender in order to get the
perspectives and the opinions at the workplace (Cho, Kim, & Mor Barak, 2017). Similarly,
my personal experience at the workplace regarding diversity attempts to make the
employment of the people from diverse fields. I have faced the diversity forms in which I
have been benefitted the cultural diversity that has in turn helped me undertaking the
decisions that are beneficial for my company and also undertake the advantage of dealing