Diversity In Workplace

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Diversity is generally defined as accepting & valuing the differences among people in terms of ethnicity, class, gender, skills, abilities and age. In today’s world due to globalization of markets the workforce are increasingly becoming heterogeneous. Diversity in progressive organizations is gaining much attention & they are spending huge amount on diversifying their workforce. Thus diversity has been recognized to be the most important organizational resource to gain and maintain a competitive edge (Richa, 2013). According to many studies diversity can help organizations in many ways like in creativity, better understanding competitions in the market, solving problems effectively and strengthen the organization (Fabrice & Emmanuel, 2013).…show more content…
Diversity may affect organizations positively like in problem solving and creativity or can affect negatively in terms of not cooperating with each other. But it is believed that if organizations properly manage HR & find the right mix of diversified workforce can enhance employee & organizational performance Although some studies reported that performance can be affected positively by age while others show neither significant nor positive effects but increasing age diversity can result in decreasing commitment and increasing age discrimination perception (Anantha & Arokiasamy, 2013). Uschi & Stephan, (2013) explains in their research “positive effects of ageing and Age-Diversity in Innovative Companies –Large Scale Evidence on Company Productivity” that moderators may be differ in different studies and on the basis of those differences these results are different, task requirement is one of the important moderator, age diversity has a positive effect on organizational productivity and the number of tasks performed in a company shows the direction of these…show more content…
Age diversity can be defined as “the heterogeneity or differences with respect to age in the members of an organization or group”. The increase of age diversified workforce will increase the level of age diversity organizations, and as a result instead of retiring older employees will be seen working with younger employees. So the organizations must try to understand the issues related to age diversity in work place and get beneficial from them. Margarethe & Allan, (1993) in their study which was on “Organizational demography in Japanese firms: group heterogeneity, individual dissimilarity, and top management team turnover” stated that age diversified workforce consists of different values and believes and as a result can affect the level of consolidation & coherency within a

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