HRMT20024: Analyzing Diversity & Work-Life Balance in Organizations

This report addresses the critical aspects of managing diversity and work-life balance in organizations, based on the analysis of two articles. The first article explores how various support systems help individuals achieve work-life balance, enhancing psychological ability and positive energy at work, using a serial mediation model across three study groups, arguing that employee well-being positively impacts performance. The second article discusses gender diversity in the workplace, particularly focusing on transgender employees, highlighting the challenges they face and advocating for inclusive strategies to broaden diversity management. The report concludes by emphasizing the importance of organizational diversity in maintaining a healthy balance between work roles and personal lives, ultimately contributing to employee well-being and organizational success. Desklib provides access to more solved assignments and study resources.

Managing Diversity And Work-
life Balance
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References
• Ozturk, M. B., & Tatli, A. (2016). Gender identity inclusion in the
workplace: broadening diversity management research and practice
through the case of transgender employees in the UK. The
International Journal of Human Resource Management, 27(8), 781-
802.
• Russo, M., Shteigman, A., & Carmeli, A. (2016). Workplace and family
support and work–life balance: Implications for individual
psychological availability and energy at work. The Journal of Positive
Psychology, 11(2), 173-188.

Article 1 – Work-Life Balance at
Workplace
• Objective
 The article tends to explore how the several support sources assist
the individuals in experiencing a work-life balance. This helps in the
development of the psychological ability and the positive energy at
the workplace.
• Method
Russo, Shteigman and Carmeli (2016) implements the serial
mediation model around the three groups that were studied for the
composition of the given article

Article 1
• Argument
The major argument that is put forth by the authors relates to the
augmentation of the positive energy of the employees through the
implementation of the work life balance of the employees as well as the
positive attitude as depicted by the concerned employees.
• Conclusion
The authors finally conclude the fact that the work-life balance of the
concerned employees might affect the performances of the employees. This
might also affect the development of the employees in terms of the
psychological availability and augmentation of the positive energy of the
employees.

Article 2 – Gender Diversity in
the Workplace
• Objective
The study aims to discuss the impact of the gender diversity within the
workplace as a blind spot in the matters that pertain to the human
resource management within the given concern. The article also aims to
look into the matters that pertain to the researches and the practices that
are related to the management of the diversity within the organization.
• Method
The composition of the article aims to discuss the matters that pertain to
the qualitative analysis of the interviews of 14 people who had
participated in the study.

Article 2
• Argument
The findings of the article tend to state that the transgender employees
of the organization tend to face a huge amount of challenges in the
matters that are specific to the organization in discussion.
• Conclusion
Ozturk and Tatli (2016) argue that the diversification of the employees is
needed in order to deal with the matters that pertain to the
incorporation of the employees belonging to the transgender
community. The author further suggest the development of an inclusion
strategy that might help in the expansion of the scope of inclusion.

Contribution
The articles in discussion aims to deal with the matters that pertain to
the understanding of the importance of the work-life diversity within
the organization. The diversity within the organization tends to assist in
the maintenance of the healthy balance among the work roles within
the organization. The work-life balance of an employee is known for
assisting the balance that needs to be maintained by the individual in
between the personal and the professional life of the person.