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Diversity in the workplace

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Exploring diversity in the workplace means hiring individuals with varied personalities

and characteristics. It means generating a work environment that includes and respects

differences, identifying the exclusive contributions that people with a lot of variations can make

and identify exploit the potential of all workers. In other words, the workforce of a company

should have people of varying age, gender, race, cultural background, religion, skills, languages,

and education among many others. Diversity is one of the most important issues that the HR

department in most companies are willing to achieve so that they could enhance inclusion in

workplaces and also to improve their reputation. It has been found out that diverse workplaces

enable a company to acquire much profit and outdo its competitors. Diversity also uniquely

identifies companies in terms of innovation, distinction, and branding. Diversity can be achieved

in a company through teamwork towards achieving a common objective. This enables people to

work together by setting their difference aside and recognizing their need of realizing a common

goal (Henry-Campbell et al., 2017).

Diversity in the workplace makes employees happy and comfortable since they are

actively included in every activity that goes on within the organization. Since inclusivity is a

priority, equality also comes in automatically such that all employees from different backgrounds

are encouraged to feel self-assured in their abilities so that they provide their best. High team

determination leads to productivity within the company by the employees (Papert, 1999). Some

of the benefits of diversity in workplaces include Mutual respect amongst employees when

employees work together in an interactive environment, they recognize each other's abilities, and

hence respect amongst them is encouraged. Marginalized workers get economically empowered

since diversity in workplaces is all about inclusion. The talents of these people get realized and

exploited in that they can also earn their living. Conflict reduction and easy conflict resolutions
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in work environments. Conflicts that inevitably occur in workplaces can be easily resolved when

employees settle their differences and work together.

Diversity also enhances the reputation of a business as it involves the inclusion and

exploring varied personalities and characteristics. Additionally, job promotions and employee

development are also encouraged through diversity. People get to interact with different fellows

in a diversified environment which improves a business culture. Generally, for diversity to be

achieved in a workplace, the acceptance and celebration of variations should be rooted,

respected, and valued in the culture of a company. A correctly managed diverse workforce is the

strategy for countering an equally growing diverse market. The positivity of the workplace

environment towards diversity leads to greater profits by drawing customers who fund

companies with diversity and inclusion initiatives (Brimhall et al., 2018).

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Reference

Brimhall, K. C., & Mor Barak, M. E. (2018). The critical role of workplace inclusion in fostering

innovation, job satisfaction, and quality of care in a diverse human service organization. Human

Service Organizations: Management, Leadership & Governance, 42(5), 474-492.

Henry-Campbell, S., & Hadeed, S. (2017). Managing a Diverse Workforce. In Encyclopedia of

Strategic Leadership and Management (pp. 953-964). IGI Global.

Papert, S. (1999). Diversity in Learning: A Vision for the New Millenium. Diversity Task Force

convened by the Vice President of the USA.