Franz Julius Adriane Damayo BSHM 31

Lesson 11: Reflection

Workplace diversity has a major influence on employee engagement and productivity. As a result,
diversity in the workplace has a direct impact on a company's performance. Many individuals
understand the difference between leadership and management intuitively, but they haven't been
able to explain it well.Similarly, managers and leaders are not the same thing. They utilize different
conceptualizations and methods to work, solve issues in different ways, perform different jobs in
organizations, and show different behaviors as a result of their different intrinsic and extrinsic
incentives. Managers provide resources and expect results, but leaders provide vision and
inspiration, as well as encouragement to employees to complete tasks. According to Zaleznik (1977),
leaders discover creative solutions to long-standing problems and expand the scope of concerns,
whereas managers limit alternatives.People who promote diversity make excellent bosses. They
should not be individuals who only see one side of the story, who create preconceptions and
assumptions about others, and who constantly reinvent themselves. Managers will work with people
from diverse cultural origins in a variety of settings.Management is the process of dealing with people
and ensuring that work is done via them. Managers must also carry out their basic planning,
organizing, leading, and regulating roles while ensuring that these core obligations are matched with
workplace diversity.

Creating a work environment that is free of discrimination, including harassment, and accessible to
people with disabilities, as well as ensuring that agency policies, processes, and procedures allow all
employees to participate in mission accomplishments and compete fairly and equitably for career
advancement, are all examples of diversity.As a result, managing diversity demands a transformation
in the organization's culture. Conducting a culture assessment, creating a cultural diversity task force,
and selecting a diversity "champion" who reports directly to the CEO are all critical steps in charting a
positive future course.Understanding how to handle diversity will inspire you to do so. Every
employee has a unique history, as well as various perspectives, beliefs, and methods of thinking.
Cash incentives may inspire one individual, while benefits may encourage another, and work quality
may motivate yet another. Motivations alter as employees and/or occupations change, thus
complicating the situation.Rather of treating everyone the same or making broad assumptions,
managers must discover what makes each individual unique and build on those traits (Morgan, 2015).