The Definition Of Diversity

1. Definition of Diversity:

There are billions of people living around the globe. All the individual people have their own identity. These identification of individual varies along the dimensions of race, ethnicity, physical ability, gender, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, religion and religious belief, political beliefs and different other environmental factors. Thus, in these cases the concept of diversity encloses acceptance and respect. Diversity is the medium which help to maintain these differentiations in a safe, positive, and nurturing environment. Diversity is the simple understanding among the people’s concept of behaving and moving beyond tolerance to live in a rich dimensions of diversity contained with each individual.

Globalization has leaded each and every company with a high number of competitions from foreign companies. Companies are facing different challenging factors due to the increasement of competition in market. To overcome these challenges company need to adopt new ways of doing business, fulfilling the demand of cultural changes, ethnicity and people. Good employee is the biggest assets for a company, but these employees are located in different parts of countries along as many organization moves to global way of doing business. As a company grows more international, it has more challenges to overcome. Thus, managing the culturally diverse workforce is the important task for today’s organization. Cultural diversity is seen as problem because culture is most sensitive part to deal with. If cultural diversity is well managed by multinational company then it can provide competitive advantages to multinational organization operating in the time of globalization. Rijamampiania and Carmichael (2005) have mentioned the three dimensions of diversity, which is illustrated in figure

The employees having the same culture, language and religion binds together. Thus, there will be divisions of different groups within a single company. Employees with big groups tend to act stronger then smaller one. As a result, culturally diverse employees avoid communication with other staffs during the break time or after work. Formation of groups lacks the employees to share their ideas, skill, knowledge and experience thus, curbing productivity growth and the effectiveness of teams. For example: Hindu people bind together because of same religion and behaviour and same way Muslim people, Christians people and so