Define diversity management and explain, with examples, some of the benefits of employing workers from diverse backgrounds to a) an organisation which employs them, and b) the other employees who work with them.

Diversity refers to the variety of age, gender, race, cultural difference in the workplace. More recently, workforce diversity has come to include sexual orientation and physical and intellectual disability, together with other specific categories of employees. For the effective management of the diverse culture specific strategies with policies like providing equal opportunity for all were employed. And these policies are legally required too. Diversity management is no more than a strategy to create opportunities to attract the brightest talent from the entire human resource pool and to then develop and retain the talents in order to maintain a competitive position in the market

Workforce diversity in IBM

Benefits to the organization The workforce diversity results both the business and social benefit to the company. The diversity management offers the not only the sustainability to the organization but also leveraging the available skills. This strategy develops the higher job satisfaction and responsibility among the employees that resulted in very less job quitting and this in turn saves the re-hiring costs.
E.g. about 150-200 mothers were on maternity leave and almost 97% of them were came back to the job after the leave.

Other Benefits includes * The diversity management strategies are likely to provide opportunities for disadvantaged groups this in turn gain the both the primary & secondary stakeholder’s support. * Enhance competitive advantage by attracting and recruiting talents from a wider source (women, disabled, senior workers, different culture different religious beliefs and different language ability).