2. What Is Workforce Diversity?
It’s combination of heterogeneous people in terms of gender, age, cultural
background, physical abilities and disabilities, caste, religion, and sexual
orientation.
It’s also defined as the collective mixture of differences and similarities that
includes for example individual and organizational characteristics , values,
beliefs, experiences, backgrounds, preference and behaviors.
A diversity initiative is a “Comprehensive Managerial Process for developing an
environment that works for all employees.”
Just like a beautiful garden, diversity has to be studied, nurtured, repaired and
maintained over the long term.
We have witnessed growing mix of heterogeneous people in organization
because of organization’s preference, globalization and socio-political system.
4. Nature of Workforce Diversity
Multi-cultural
Multi-linguistic
Heterogeneity
Multidisciplinary
Set of different skills
Set of different people
Multiple viewpoints
Demographic Diversity ( In terms of gender, age, caste, area etc)
5. Two Perspective of Workforce Diversity
Narrow Perspective
It deals with surface-level
Diversity i.e. Caste , Gender
and other demographic
categories
Broad Perspective
It encompasses all the possible
ways people can differ.
Caste, gender,
age and other
demographic
categories
Values, abilities,
organizational
function, tenure,
personality
6. High Level of Productivity
Boarder Service Range
Increase in Creativity
Effective Communication
Learning & Growth
Diverse Experience
Variety of Viewpoints
Quality Functioning
Communication Issue
Conflicting viewpoints
Forming of more informal
groups
Discrimination
Increase employee
turnover
Negative ImpactPositive Impact
Impact of Workforce Diversity on Business
7. High Level of Productivity
Boarder Service Range
Increase in Creativity
Effective Communication
Learning & Growth
Diverse Experience
Variety of Viewpoints
Quality Functioning
Positive Impact Negative Impact
Communication Issue
Conflicting viewpoints
Forming of more informal
groups
Discrimination
Increase employee turnover
Impact of Workforce Diversity on Business