Diversity In Today's Organizations

With today's workforce becoming increasingly diverse and organizations doing more to maximize the benefits of the differences in employees, organizations are relying on managers to get the people who get the job done. People have always been the central to organizations, but there strategic importance is growing in today's knowledge-based business world. An organization's success increasingly depends on the knowledge, skills, and abilities of its employees excluding there gender, age, ethnicity, and the differences in skill and abilities. When employees' talents are valuable, rare, difficult to imitate and organize, an organization can achieve an advantage. Having managers or human resource departments that are superb for identifying, recruiting, and hiring the best talent available will allow the organization to employ people with skill, and capabilities that add value to the organization. There are times when gender, age, and ethnicity are considered. Is this an overall process that effective and efficient business organizations base there employment status on? A diverse workforce that has been established within business environments are important. Companies that value the ways cultural and workforce diversity contribute to long-term success, innovation and productivity embrace methods that enhance efficiency (Waller,2006 pg.50-52).

Diversity has many different meanings. The description of diversity can be classified into categories: human, cultural and systems. Human diversity encompasses the physical difference of individuals, such as skin color, gender and appearance. Cultural diversity, on the other hand, looks at individual cultural issues such as religious beliefs, family background and upbringing. Syste...

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...in affect but for the ever growing demand that will benefit businesses. It allow businesses to not only think inside the box but it has driven them think outside the box. Such diverse organizations build corporate communities that are supportive of many kinds of diversity, not just race, gender, age, or ethnicity, but also supportive of different ways of thinking and seeing the world. It has become increasingly common to represent such a diverse group. Businesses have discovered that the best way to expand is to create such diversity to meet the needs of there market and maintain new business ideas for the current status and future trends. The importance and advantage of having such diverse environments improves productivity, forms better work relationships among employees and enhance social responsibility.