global economy, diversity is no longer a feel-good best practice for companies, it’s a business imperative” (Macfarlane, 2010). The changing terrain of the workplace, aging workforce, customer demands and the proliferation of minority groups in the global market have pushed companies to adopt “business practices that profit and benefit from being seen as diverse” (Creative Solutions Services, 2012). Many countries and companies worldwide have taken revolutionary steps to integrate diversity strategies
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MERU UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT RESEARCH PROJECT AN INVESTIGATION OF THE EFFECTS OF DIVERSITY MANAGEMENT IN WORKPLACE TO ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS IN MERU MUNICIPALITY KENNEDY MUTWIRI MUKARIA MUC-SBS-555-0056/2009 A RESEARCH PROPOSAL A research proposal submitted to the department of business in partial fulfilment of requirements of degree of Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting) of Meru University College of Science and Technology DECLARATION This is my original work and
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DIVERSITY MANAGEMENT * The change that has most impacted orgs in the past decade has been the growing realisation that people are an organisation’s primary source of CA (Ruona and Gibson, 2004) * Demographic changes in labour force + globalisation, has inspired HR to become increasingly more effective at developing programs that leverage the differences and diversity in the workforce * Differences in approaches: wider debate of convergent/divergent approaches to HRM WHAT IS DM
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Assignment II: Individual ‘Successfully managing diversity can lead to better performing employees and potentially better financial performance for an organisation’. Introduction The composition of today’s workforce is changing as companies expand across boundaries and increased globalisation facilitates the movement of labour from one country to another. Modern companies comprise employees of varying ethnicity, languages, cultural background, sexual orientation and even age as there are even
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Ethical Issue: Diversity in The Workplace Delores Andrea Ortiz Marylhurst University Introduction Diversity is defined by Webster dictionary as all characteristics and experiences that define each of us as individuals. A common misconception about diversity is that is only pertains to people. Diversity can include race, ethnicity, gender, age, religion, disability and sexual orientation. A diverse workplace aims to create an inclusive culture that values and uses the talents of
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the Determinant of Organizational Culture and Diversity Introduction With the world becoming smaller and smaller from the increasingly intensive business trade, the globalization not only bring huge opportunity, but also bring more challenges to organizations than ever before. Multicultural teams, therefore, are used in workplace, and workforces become more divers than ever before (Schein, 2010). But ethnicity is only one part of diversity, and the concept of it includes some visible ones
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Kenneth Lapinski Diversity initiative Presentation outline Are Diversity Initiatives Ethical * Religious Beliefs * A culturally diverse workforce may include many different religious beliefs. * Some religions have beliefs that heterosexuality is the only acceptable sexual orientation. * So managers need to be prepared to address these issues and clarify that whatever an employee’s personal beliefs are they must respect others in the workplace. * Gender Issues
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DEFINITION Workforce Diversity-“Diversity means being diverse or varied, and at work means having a workforce comprised of two or more groups of employees with various racial, ethnic, gender, cultural, national origin, handicap, age, and religious backgrounds. The variety or multiplicity of demographics features that characterize a company’s workforce, particularly in terms of race, sex, culture, national origin, handicap, age, and religion (Dessler2012), pg. 55.” Workforce Diversity is important
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1. Managing diversity Diversity is a difference between or similarity between people based on race, religion, education, gender. Benefits of diversity : Higher creativity in decision making. In diversified work team, it is easy to come up with new ideas, because everyone has different side of views, different opinions. and it makes possible think out of box. Better Understanding and service of customers.. For example, Walmart store advertised heavily in hispanic neighborhoods after chrismas
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Components of a Diverse Workforce Mark A Kulpa Mid-Continent University M14 DL22 Human Resource Management Professor Edward Hogg 29 December, 2013 Components of a Diverse Workforce Having a diversity workforce can be beneficial for any organization. Not only does it bring people from different cultures together but can bring new ideas that could help a company be more productive. Different cultures may go about problem solving in different ways which could result in thinking “outside
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