Assignment Question: "Today’s workplace has become increasingly diverse in terms of gender, age, culture, and ethnicity. In light of this, why and how can organisations attract, select, and retain culturally and demographically diverse employees?”

Unity In Our Disparity; advancing diversity through the recruitment, selection and maintenance of heterogeneous employees.

1. Introduction 2.1. As a result of the explosion of globalisation of multinational corporations and the migration of citizens across international borders, firms of the 21st century have workforces that are distributed broadly across countries that include people from varied cultures, speaking numerous languages and educated in different systems (Rosenzweig 1998). Consequently, organisations are becoming increasingly diverse places to work, reflecting the changing demographic of society. Diversity is no longer a phenomenon; diversity management is now a mainstream field of scholarly research, with the number of publications of diversity-related issues doubling every five years (Bell and Kravitz 2008; Rivera 2012). There is consistent evidence amongst contemporary research positing several mechanisms by which diversity can improve individual, group and organisational functioning (Di Tomaso et al. 2007; Hartenian and Gudmundson 2000; Richard 2000; Seigyoung and Menguc 2005). The focus then turns on organisations to develop a framework that leverages the diverse viewpoints and experiences of its employees in ways that increase company effectiveness. 2.2. Minorities have made great advancements with respect to their positions in managerial and professional roles over the last five decades. However, a compelling body of empirical research still shows racial and gender disparities within employing organisations (Tomaskovic-Devey and Stainback 2007), signaling that within the