Workplace Diversity: Personal Experiences and Strategies

This essay explores the multifaceted concept of workplace diversity, emphasizing its significance in fostering a dynamic and inclusive organizational environment. Drawing upon personal experiences as a manager, the essay highlights the tangible and intangible benefits of a diverse workforce, including enhanced decision-making processes and increased creativity. It delves into various forms of diversity, such as cultural, educational, and gender diversity, illustrating how each can positively or negatively impact an organization. The essay further outlines actionable strategies for enhancing workplace effectiveness through diversity management, including inclusive practices, employee training, and strategic hiring. Ultimately, the essay underscores the critical role of diversity in building a successful and adaptable organization.

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Workplace Diversity
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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

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with the customers who have different backgrounds in terms of culture and religion. This has
positively affected my organization.
Further, there are several actions that the organization can undertake for ensuring
effectiveness at the workplace through undertaking better diversity. These actions will
determine the management of diversity at the workplace. This includes the inclusive practices
which majorly includes the development of policy in which focuses on the lack of
discrimination on any grounds such as education, gender, disability and sexual orientation.
Further, the organization can make efforts for the training of the employees pertaining to the
knowledge regarding the policies and the harmony amongst the employees through the
making the employees awareness of the fact that all the employees must respect and adhere to
the policies and rules of the organization (Syed & Ozbilgin, 2019).
This can make the organization effective and also lead to diversity at the workplace.
Besides, the organization should make the hiring strategy for the managing the diversity
which can be possible through the hiring of the people from varied fields in order to get the
diverse perspectives and opinions at the workers within the workplace. Additionally, the
organization can ensure the diversity through the interactions with the groups of employees in
order to make the awareness of the each other’s values and beliefs that can promote the
mutual respect and harmony at the workplace (Harvey & Allard, 2015). This can be helpful
for the maintaining of the effectiveness of the organization.
To conclude, it can be said that diversity can ensure that the organization has diverse
workforce with different religion and culture that can ensure creativity and faster decision
making at the workplace. Here, the essay has discussed my personal experience at the
organization in which I have made efforts for the maintenance of diversity at the workplace
and also the forms of diversity which have affected the organization. Lastly, essay has
discussed the steps that are undertaken by the organization in order to ensure effectiveness in
the organization.

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