Diversity

Examples of Diversity in the following topics:

• How Businesses Benefit from Diversity

  • Diversity brings substantial potential benefits such as better decision making and problem solving, and greater creativity and innovation.
  • Diversity is beneficial to both the organization and its members.
  • Diversity provides organizations with the ability to compete in global markets.
  • Simply recognizing diversity in a corporation helps link the variety of talents within the organization.
  • But there are still many challenges to fostering an inclusive environment in the workplace for diversity of thought and ideas.

• Defining Diversity

  • Diversity in an organization should reflect a globalized and multicultural workforce where value is placed on diversity of thought.
  • Women entering the workforce created diversity.
  • A multicultural or diverse organization not only contains many different cultural groups, but it values this diversity.
  • In this globalized economy, a multicultural workforce should reflect a diversity of thought.
  • Productivity and costs can be analyzed to assist in building the business case for diversity.

• Managing differences in organizations

  • This assumption is limited and detrimental to diversity efforts.
  • Diversity goes beyond increasing the number of different identity-group affiliations on the payroll.
  • Such an effort is merely the first step in managing a diverse workforce for the organization's utmost benefit.
  • They realize that it is how a company defines diversity and what it does with the experiences of being a diverse organization that delivers on the promise.
  • This suggests that interaction processes within a diverse team are crucial to the integration of diverse viewpoints.

• Location Choice and Site Planning

  • The decision was largely unsuccessful due to the high costs of employee relocation and the fact that much of the ethnically diverse engineering workforce did not want to live in Colorado Springs.
  • Unlike Washington DC, Colorado Springs did not have cultural diversity to match with its diverse and highly educated workforce, it lacked employment options for spouses, and the work ethic was more relaxed due to the beautiful natural setting that provided unlimited options for outdoor recreation.
  • Other communities may welcome such firms because of the jobs, tax revenues, and economic diversity they promise.
  • The decision was largely unsuccessful due to the high costs of employee relocation and the fact that much of the ethnically diverse engineering workforce did not want to live in Colorado Springs.
  • Unlike Washington DC, Colorado Springs did not have cultural diversity to match with its diverse and highly educated workforce, it lacked employment options for spouses, and the work ethic was more relaxed due to the beautiful natural setting that provided unlimited options for outdoor recreation.

• Doing business across cultures

  • Employers must take into consideration the impact cultural diversity can have on both the homogeneity of the workplace and potential legal implications for improper discrimination.
  • Businesses with diverse cultural backgrounds must maintain an environment suited for every constituent so that the objectives of the business can be efficiently met.
  • Installing cultural diversity training programs can help accomplish this by defining what cultural intelligence is, teaching employees to accept and work effectively with others from different cultural backgrounds, and taking advantage of advice from those who have cross-cultural experience.

• Location decisions

  • Other communities may welcome such firms because of the jobs, tax revenues, and economic diversity they promise.
  • The decision was largely unsuccessful due to the high costs of employee relocation and the fact that much of the ethnically diverse engineering workforce did not want to live in Colorado Springs.
  • Unlike Washington DC, Colorado Springs did not have cultural diversity to match with its diverse and highly educated workforce, it lacked employment options for spouses, and the work ethic was more relaxed due to the beautiful natural setting that provided unlimited options for outdoor recreation.

• Government Regulation

  • Diverse experiences - regulation with a view of eliminating or enhancing opportunities for the formation of diverse preferences and beliefs.

• Minimizing Risk of Miscommunication

  • Language Barrier: Due to globalization, messages must be effective when conveyed to a diverse audience.
  • Language barriers: Due to globalization, messages must be effective when conveyed to a culturally diverse audience.

• The economic advantages of remanufacturing

  • Those who study the remanufacturing industry say this invisibility is due to the wide dispersion of remanufacturers, the diversity of products they breathe new life into, and the small size of the majority of players.

• Sustainability Initiatives

  • The decision was largely unsuccessful due to the high costs of employee relocation and the fact that much of the ethnically diverse engineering workforce did not want to live in Colorado Springs.
  • Unlike Washington DC, Colorado Springs did not have cultural diversity to match with its diverse and highly educated workforce, it lacked employment options for spouses, and the work ethic was more relaxed due to the beautiful natural setting that provided unlimited options for outdoor recreation.