Saturday, December 12, 2020

Workforce Diversity

Introduction

Having the best combination in a team is very important. The right balance with the inclusion of the aggressive ones, calm and collective, educated, experience they all do matter. Diversity in workforce is a true blessing when adopted for any organization.

 

Hiring employees different in age, ethnicity, gender, education, background and experience etc., is termed as workforce diversity (Give A Grad A Go, 2019). However, it is not going to bring any benefit by symbolically hiring in diversity. Instead, the employer should ensure that contribution is made towards the organization by all these employees. Hence it is important that you look at Diversity with adequate qualifications and experiences.

 

The employee and employer both are benefited by workforce with diversity. Employees are benefited in the manner of being able to reduce conflicts, better understanding of one another, their level of confidence increases etc. On the other hand, the employer gets the benefits with variety of ideas, increased employer engagement, computer reputation gets boosted, reduces employee turnover etc.

 

It is important for the employer to identify the type of business he/she is involved in, the volume, the customer base etc., before deciding on how diverse the workforce. Inappropriate staffing in any manner will not contribute to the growth of the organization

 

In a country like Sri Lanka, where different ethnicities live, it is important to have Diversity in Workforce. Companies should evaluate the location and it’s surrounding, target customer background and the level of skill required. This will attract more business.

 

Conclusion

Workforce Diversity is important in order to get multiple benefits. However, it is important to ensure that diversity comes with qualifications and experience.  

 

References

Give A Grad A Go, 2019. Give a Grad a Go. [Online]
Available at: https://www.giveagradago.com/news/2019/08/what-is-diversity-in-the-workplace/424
[Accessed 12 12 2020].

 

5 comments:

  1. Diverse workforce is very important for an organization and it brings different cultures and nations together for one task at a time. It generates a variety of ideas and can make the service of the organization productive.

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  2. Diverse the work force to get multiple benefits in an organization whether it is local or international and practice it continuously in order to sustainable development is highly recommended.

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  3. Workforce diversity enable organization for better performance since it includes different scales of age, experience, religion and raise. It develops the creativity among team members and develop decision making and problem solving ability. Most of organizations make their fullest effort to have a strong diversified workforce since it gains lot of advantages to the company.

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  4. Getting the right people to do the right job will improve the personal working capacity & enhance the production level.

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  5. Workforce diversity is important to achieve better results through shared vision and goals. It is also important to develop the team skills in order to improve team performance

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