Organizational Behavior: Workforce Diversity and Teamwork Discussion

This discussion post examines the impact of workforce diversity on organizational behavior, focusing on how it fosters creativity and teamwork, and the challenges that may arise. The author supports the idea that diverse teams enhance productivity and offer varied perspectives, citing Barron and Burke's work on Acorn Industries to illustrate this point. The post acknowledges potential communication and collaboration issues due to cultural and linguistic differences, referencing Bredillet, Tywoniak, and Dwivedula. The author also highlights the importance of information exchange and understanding within diverse teams, drawing on Mockaitis, Zander, and de Cieri's research. The assignment brief discusses the advantages of virtual teams in acquiring skilled personnel, enhancing customer service, and gaining a competitive edge, with references to Gibson & Gibbs, Kuruppuarachchi, Kerzner, and Roseke. The post emphasizes the importance of project managers addressing challenges in international projects and promoting innovative ideas to improve productivity. The post includes references to several academic sources to support the arguments presented.

RUNNING HEAD: ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR 0
PEOPLE MANAGEMENT

ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR 1
I am in the favor of the point that Workforce diversity supports the company to maintain
creativity because of including various different members in the decision making. This supports
the organization to increase the productivity and maintain team work because of getting more
ideas from diverse team members. As described by Barron and Burke, Acorn face various
challenges and issues due to working in tea and getting ideas from different team members
regarding the subject matter (Barron & Burke, 2014),. Therefore, the authors revealed that in the
organization it include various members from different departments such as project manager,
engineering department and various other departments.
I also believe that it can face some challenges and problems for the companies as
suggested by Bredillet, Tywoniak and Dwivedula this leads in reducing the communication and
collaboration. It is because when the company wants to get succeed in the international project
the communication has to be increased (Bredillet, Tywoniak & Dwivedula, 2015). This is
difficult to collaborate due to diversity of the language, cultures and due to differences in the
ethics and philosophies.
Further, I other author such as Barron and Burke also revealed that Acorn gets success in
their projects because of more interaction with the team members. However, the issues arises
because of findings challenge in the adopting the rules and regulations of the government.
Further, I also in the favor of providing information to the companies and industries that it can
increase communication. This is due to the reason that it is considered important to exchange the
information and to determine that it can well understand by the other party (Mockaitis, Zander &
de Cieri, 2018).

ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOUR 2
References
Barron, S., & Burke, R. (2014). Project management leadership: Building creative
teams (2ndEd.). New York: John Wiley & Sons.
Bredillet, C., Tywoniak, S., &Dwivedula, R. (2015). What is a good project manager? An
Aristotelian perspective. International Journal of Project Management, 33(2), 254-266.
Mockaitis, A. I., Zander, L., & De Cieri, H. (2018). The benefits of global teams for international
organizations: HR implications. The International Journal of Human Resource
Management, 29(14), 2137-2158.