The document outlines three benefits of diversity: enhanced perspective, increased innovation, and improved performance in the workplace, which can lead to better community insights, creative ideas, and employee confidence. It also discusses three challenges: resistance to change, poor communication across diverse groups, and difficulties in managing a diverse workforce. Strategies beyond diversity training are suggested to ensure effective implementation of diversity initiatives within organizations.

1. What are three benefits of diversity? What are three challenges of diversity? Discuss how each of
these are actually benefits and challenges.
Reference: Working in teams: moving from high potential to high performance.. BA Griffith and
EB Dunham.. Ch.7
Solution
The three benefits of diversity are :
1. Perspective : Working with individuals with different background can give the company a
wide perspective about the different communities that exists in the worlds and the values
associated with each community. Perspective provides a competitive advantage as it brings
creativity experience and an insight into the various communities.
2.Innovation : Working with people from different background, experience and working style
can generate new ideas coming out of the feedbacks and suggestions of each of them which can
ultimately lead to innovations. Playing on each individual's strength and collaborating them can
be very beneficial for a team.
3. Performance : engaging employees from different backgrounds promotes equality in the
workplace which helps the employees to be confident in their abilities and achieve their best.
Three challenges of diversity are :
1. Resistance : Diversity becomes a challenge for the organisation as the employees become
resistant to it and to the changes that are associated with it. The resistance at times develop
negative attitude in employees which in turn decreases their productivity.
2. Poor communication : As in a diverse workplace people from different age, sex, religion come
together it is very challanging to miantain proper communication among them.
Miscommunication can lead to misinterpretation which results in poor employee relationships.
3. Managing diverse workforce : Although diversity training is provided to the employees to
understand the organisation's diversity plan, it is not always sufficient. Various other strategies
should also be developed so that the culture of diversity reaches every department of the
organisation.