Analysis of Diversity Management and Global Issues at BHP Billiton

This report provides an analysis of diversity management practices within BHP Billiton, a leading global resources company. The analysis highlights the company's approach to diversity, emphasizing the inclusion of employees from diverse backgrounds to foster innovation and achieve company goals. The report explores the positive impact of diversity management on the working environment, decision-making, and organizational culture. Furthermore, the report identifies key global comparative management issues faced by BHP Billiton, including challenges related to organizational structure, corporate governance, and corporate strategy. The report also discusses the lack of effective communication, ineffective decision-making, and ethical concerns within the company. The company's potential is acknowledged, but the report points out the need for a more effective strategy to capitalize on market opportunities and improve profitability. The analysis references relevant research to support its findings.

Management

Diversity management in BHP Billiton
Diversity BHP Billiton in the company improves the workplaces of the company. The more
innovative changes were emerging in the company due to the diversity management and it was
found that in the company teams were also built in the diversified level (Cascio and Boudreau,
2016). The company BHP Billiton is taking employees from the different backgrounds which
have the different culture, gender, skills and experiences so that goals in the company can be
easily attained. The positive working environment has been seem in the BHP Billiton Company
as diversified management values the different individuals and helps in taking the effective
decisions in the company. The organizational culture in the company is the better aligned with
the diversity management and helps in interacting the employees with the diversified people.
Diversity management also addresses the certain issues in the company which helps in making
the decision at the effective way (Ordu, 2016).
Key issues for global comparative management
The company has the certain global comparative management issue which includes issues in the
organizational structure, corporate governance, corporate strategy, production system, etc. BHB
Billiton is facing the issue related to the organizational structure as they do not have the effective
organizational structure so it is creating the issue of the lack of the communication. The people
have the diversified people in the company BHB billion so it creates the issue of the not making
the effective decisions (Ashikali and Groeneveld, 2015). Every individual in the tea, has the
different perspective with the another so it results in creating the lack of direction and awareness
in the company.
The corporate governance of the company BHB Billiton is not effective so there were global
management issues in that which is related to the transparency, accountability and the ethical
things. The business operations which are conducting in the company is not ethical so it is also
creating the issue of the conflicts of the interest. Due to ineffective corporate mechanism of the
company, there were issues related to the lack of the board committee in the company BHB
Billiton has also faced (Boiral, 2016). The company has the enough potential in the market but
the major global issues is that their strategy is not that much effective and they have failed to

found out the opportunities and due to this they were lacking the opportunities and the
profitability in the company.

References
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Cascio, W.F. and Boudreau, J.W., 2016. The search for global competence: From international
HR to talent management. Journal of World Business, 51(1), pp.103-114.
Ordu, A., 2016. The Effects of Diversity Management on Job Satisfaction and Individual
Performance of Teachers. Educational Research and Reviews, 11(3), pp.105-112.