Managing diversity

Different like gender, age, religion, cultural background, religion, race and ethnicity, terms of lifestyle choice, perspectives, attitudes, value system, beliefs, behaviors, expectations, skills and experiences can be found in any workspace in a company. So its hard to manage a group of employees that work in the same company but have all these differences in perception regarding a order or treatment to a fellow worker

if a company manages to work with all these different aspect in their company, this produces a lot of benefits for the company:

1. There will de a lot of solution to different kind of problems because of the diversity.
2. There is a lot of skill in a diverse office such as language and knowledge
3. Different point of view and will create a bigger set of ideas
4. If the company encourages diversity, the employees will work at their best capacity and ability.

But this kind of environment also has a lot of challenges because of the diversity that you can find in the office:

1. Communications: perceptual, language, culture and gestures
2. Resistance to change: difficulty in the changes in the work environment
3. Diversity in the workplace policies: use the strong point of each one of the employees in order to create a strategy works to reach the desired goal of the company
4. Successful Management of Diversity: to create a working environment where the diversity is accepted in all the organization, in which the different aspects of a worker are accepted and considered as an opportunity.

In order for a company who was branches in different country’s around the world, the best way to know how to enter a foreign market is to know the local culture, so its best if they have local employees to work in their companies mixed with foreign create future solution that are going to be accepted, and it’s a good idea to keep a very diversified office staff so that the workers can open their horizon and start to learn about other cultures, that the curiosity becomes a constant companion in the workers mind about other cultures and their way of life.


http://www.multiculturaladvantage.com/recruit/diversity/Diversity-in-the-Workplace-Benefits-Challenges-Solutions.asp

http://www.iegd.org/englishok/managing.htm