Diversity is a significant addition to the workforce of today. Several factors affect diversity and standards should be followed by a organization to ensure that it is diverse. Diversity and inclusion can be tools to build a competitive advantage for a organization and can help to address challenges by looking at different angles.
It also benefits workers by encouraging them to collaborate with all kinds of people. “Diversity awareness allows you to recruit, attract and inspire the best talent, who will allow you and your company to improve their success,” says Phillips and Gully (2014). A business should do a variety of things to ensure diversity. First of all, the potential has to be found. The growth of the talent must then be supervised carefully. Eventually, the talent needs to be retained.
Baseball was one of the first institutions in the American history to be desegregated. Shortly after the end of the civil war, there was the first public baseball game held between all-blacks teams. Philadelphia Excelsiors and Brooklyn Uniques played. Twenty years later, there were over 200 black teams in the US that had been formed. … Read more
Diversity in management, or lack thereof, is having the same mixture of women, blacks, and other minorities in management positions as there is in that local population. What this paper will talk about is some of the facts that business will have to face in regards to diversifying there workforce and there management. Also, it … Read more
In todays society, cultural diversity is at the highest point it has ever been. As companies are becoming more diverse, it is becoming more important for them to understand and manage that diversity. People of different backgrounds, races, ages, sex, and/or religions create a diverse workforce. There is an importance of having a diverse workforce … Read more
Social responsibility is the concept that business is part of the larger society in which it exists and must therefore act in a way that not only advances the firm, but also serves the society. More than ever firms are being challenged to integrate social responsibilities in to their operations. Many firms now believe that … Read more
The religious beliefs of people along the Silk Road at the beginning of the 1st century BCE were very different from what they would later become. When China defeated the nomadic Xiongnu confederation and pushed Chinese military control northwest as far as the Tarim Basin (in the 2nd century BCE), Buddhism was known in Central … Read more
‘Diversity’. It’s everywhere you look these days. When you switch on your TV set, you open up a newspaper, or you just look out your window – it’s there. It seems everybody has a lot to say about diversity, but what does it mean, what does it really mean? And what does the future hold … Read more
