Diversity_In_The_Workplace

Diversity In The Workplace Diversity in the Workforce Diversity is the things about people that make them different, not just culturally but human differences. Having a multitude of differences in the workforce gives an organization the ability to utilize many ideas to reach one common goal. One could say that a diverse group of people together in one room can accomplish greater achievements than a room filled with the same types of individuals. In the workforce diversity can be gender differences, age, education levels, and marital status. Diversity in the workplace can also create diversity in the other areas of life. When companies value diversity it gives the organization the ability to utilize the opinions and viewpoints of all it employees to create a better working environment as well as allowing the employees to know that the company they represent cares about its workers. Manager's understand this concept of diversity and how important diversity is to the success of a companies ability to implement programs that continues to develop a harmonious and diverse workplace. According to Daft (2003) such programs that 'builds a corporate culture that values diversity; changing structures, policies, and systems to support diversity, and providing diversity awareness training' (p.450). Cultural change starts with diversity, people, companies, women, men, about, employees, workplace, workforce, different, cultural, working, training, organization, one, managers, group, differences, change, awareness, work, utilize, understand, programs, new, minorities, know, individuals, helps, daft, concept, bias, behaviors, been, according, ability