Importance of workforce Submitted to: Prof.

Shruti
Swaroop
diversity Submitted by: Group 4
Workforce Diversity

“Workforce diversity is a
workforce consisting of a
broad mix of workers
from different racial and
ethnic background of
different ages and
genders, and of different
domestic and national
cultures.”
Cont….
“Workforce diversity means that the organization are
becoming more heterogeneous mix of people in terms
of gender, age, ethnicity and sexual orientation.”

Workforce Employees
Impacts on Impacts on Productivity
Diversity working
Dimensions of Diversity
 Goals of the Workforce
Diversity…….
 To identify, attract, and retain, the best people of each group.
 To create a workplace where that talent can perform at its best to
maximize shareholders value.
 To assess and understand the diversity of the marketplace.
 Benefits of Workforce Diversity

Faster Higher
problem- employee
Variety of solving Better engagement
Increased
different decision creativity
perspectives making
Enhance
Higher service level &
innovation Improve customer
Increased motivation and satisfaction Improved
creativity efficiency of hiring results
existing staff
Challenges of Workforce Diversity
• Acceptance and Respect
• Accommodation of Beliefs
• Ethnic and Cultural Differences
• Gender Equality
• Physical and Mental
Disabilities
• Generation Gaps
• Language and Communication
 Key developments for workforce diversity
Enhancement of their maternity leave benefit act: to increase the number of paid maternity leave

Protection changes within the workplace and its condition mainly focusing on women working in
Maharashtra

Prevention of
Night-shift work
workplace protection for
harassment women
Working
conditions
requirements for Daycare facilities
employers
 Decriminalization of same-sex private consensual sexual conduct between adults: employees
discriminated against by their employers due to their sexual orientation could claim for a violation of
the basic rights of freedom of expression

New reporting requirements for specific companies regarding their efforts in sexual harassment
prevention in the workplace

Government has launched an online platform to receive sexual

harassment complaints from women employees known as “She-
Box” (Sexual Harassment Electronic Box)
Examples for
diverse
companies
 Diversity & Inclusion in Product Industry
Benefits to returning mothers. 6
weeks paid maternity and
paternity leaves
Diversity education programmes
Promoting diversity through including diversity training and
business resource groups mentorship

Actively employing millennials Aimed at reaching 50:50gender

for promoting generation ratio by 2020
diversity
Focus on diverse suppliers in IT space
as they have the ability to develop
disruptive technologies or business
models. Diverse suppliers bring
agility and innovation to IT, and they
also represent the consumers and
communities that company reach
 Diversity university website
that helps employees to
understand the benefits of
working collaboratively
Employee resource groups
and mentoring programmes
Re-ignite programs- returnship
initiative launched in 2017
Celebrates Johnson & Johnson
teams across the globe that are
making a difference through
innovative strategies to build
diversity, advance inclusion, and
enhance business.
40% management positions
held by women in organization
Paternity and maternity paid
leaves9 weeks and 17 weeks
respectively. This expanded
policy is being extended globally
Textio: Artificial Intelligence
product: Removes gender bias
from our job description by
detecting words that could
influence a specific gender to
apply, and altering them to non-
gendered words.
Creation of Inclusion Index: Helps in
understanding the effectiveness of
company efforts by measuring employee
perceptions about their experiences at
Microsoft.
Parental Benefits: This c include 12
weeks of parental leave, regardless of
gender, at 100% pay; comprehensive
health and wellness benefits; enhanced
fertility benefits
Offers close to 50 community groups
across the company for career
development, support, networking
opportunities, mentoring, community
participation, product input, and
assistance in activities that promote
cultural awareness.
It follows design for all humans, by
humans policy. It believes tech is about
creativity and art, and about how well
you listen to customers and build the
right thing. Diversity helps in building
products for all different kinds of
customers
Trainings on unconscious
biasness
Building early interest and skills in tech
through collaboration with other tech
companies, and accelerating diversity
across industries and business.
Partnership with suppliers that show
better practices and policies for the
workplace
 Workforce Diversity in Service industry
that no one should be Professional Development – to
discriminated against because enable women, LGBT and ethnically
of their differences, such as diverse employees to build skills for
age, disability, ethnicity, success
gender, gender identity and
expression, religion or sexual
orientation.” The organisation also hosts a
company-wide celebration of
International Day of Persons with
Disabilities as well as endeavour to
Diversity Awareness – to help help their employees with various
people understand the support like assistive technology,
benefits of working with a flexible work arrangements and
diverse organisation additional training.
Diversity Management – to equip
executives to manage diverse
teams and
 Workforce Diversity in Service industry
only the highest-performing Programmes such as EY Launch
teams, which maximise the have begun, which is for ethnically
power of different opinions, diverse college freshmen,
perspectives, and cultural sophomores and transfer students,
references, will succeed in the and builds awareness of accounting
global marketplace.” as a major and professional
services as a profession

first of the Big Four to assign

full-time, partner-level The number of women in top
leadership to diversity executive management positions
recruiting has increased by more than 20%
 Top 10 tech
companies in
terms of
Diversity &
Inclusion
Conclusion

Companies in Diverse work With companies Diversity in a

different parts of environment going global, company,
world adapting produces better diversity has influence its image
diversity performance become important
Thank you 
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