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Assignment 1
Ans1. Diversity in the business essentially encourages acceptance of differences, respecting one another as well as teamwork despite of inherent variations in age, race, language, political inclination, religion, gender or communication style among the employees. There are tremendous amount of advantage of establishing diverse workplace. For instance, diverse employee base helps in innovating products and services of the business as well as bringing fresh prospective on the table (Pedulla, D., 2020).
There are five major issues that can act as a roadblock for diversity in the business
1. Respect and Acceptance - One of the pillars of strong diverse workplace is establishing a workplace where employee respects one another. If there is lack of respect and acceptance of the diverse beliefs among employees that can rise to tremendous amount conflicts
2. Understanding and Accommodations - There can be serious challenge in accommodating and understanding diversity in spiritual, cultural and political outlook. There needs to constant conditioning of the employee that one shouldn’t impose their belief on others in order to prevent conflicts and disputes
3. Evident Cultural and Ethnic differences - There are many issues when one understands diversity in workplace in aspect of cultural and ethnic differences. There can be certain people who can hold grudges as well as prejudice against each other.
4. Inequality in Wages and Salaries - It is one of the major problems faced in context of diversity, for the same amount work, women are paid less than men even though they may be equally qualified.
5. Mental and Physical Disabilities - Employees who are disabled by their physical or mental impairment finds it difficult in navigating through the workplace. Business are perhaps not well equipped to fulfil the needs of especially abled employees like wheelchair and service dogs.
Ans2. There are immense benefits of diversity at workplace. You can find four major benefits of promoting and implementing diversity in the workplace (Young, J. and Brinkworth, C., 2018).
1. Diversity enhances Productivity - Performance and productivity form the heart of any organisation. Diversity in the organisation advances healthy competition among the employees such that it boosts the moral of employees. Employees belonging to diverse cultural background brings their unique skills on the table.
2. Enhances Creativity & Innovation- Creativity is the mental ability to enhance unique ideas and create something new. Extension of creativity is innovation which primarily is transformation of these unique ideas into new entities. A diverse employee base of the business enables more innovation and brings more creative ideas.
3. Effective minimisation of Unconscious Biases - Unconscious biases can automatically and unconsciously creep into the process of any decision making in the business as well as retard the organisation from taking optimum actions. Diversity in the workplace helps in effectively reducing these biases since it makes all the stakeholders more aware about the things, they don’t know about as well as clear the confusion.
4. Enhances Global Reputation and Employer Brand - Diversity helps in developing a great reputation for the organisation in the market place which results to enhance their revenues and profitability. Besides promoting an organisation that offers equal opportunity to their employees based on the merit, organisation can leverage global respect that can help in attracting talent in the marketplace.
Ans3 Cultural can be regarded as one of the critical values that drives people and predict how one behave in particular stimulus. Diversity in culture embraced in the workplace can emerge from values, traditions, practices as well as beliefs. Globalization can be regarded as one of the major examples of promoting cultural diversity in the business (Pedulla, D., 2020). Organisation have comprehended that diversity of workforce offers both tangible as well as intangible benefits. These benefits are one of the primary reasons why many multinational organisations like Nike, AT&T, and Johnson and John have embraced the cultural diversity in their workplace. One of the prominent examples of describing cultural diversity is multi-cultural team resulting from business expansion in different geographies. For instance, AT&T expanding in Indian Market thereby establishing their branch in India, hiring employees from India who are led by American leader. In this context, both team members as well as managers need to comprehend the cultural beliefs and norms of one another such that they can form well-oiled machine driven to attain the targeted goals (Rosener, J. B., 1990).
Ans4 Institutional Theory of Diversity Management - Institutional Theory is around for a long time and popular in the disciple in social theory practices. It attempts to comprehend how institutions interact with its surrounding social systems. It considers the social systems as the institution as being the building block of society. Institutional Theory of Diversity Management revolves around the social structure and considers the processes, norms as well as routines becomes established as authoritative guidelines for social behaviour (Ibarra, H and Ely, R., 2013).
The Resource Based Theory of Diversity Management
This theory revolves around the idea that internal resources that act as critical source of sustained competitive advantage. This is very different from traditional institutional method of diversity management. Essentially resource based theory of diversity management enables the employees of the organisation to become the greatest asset of the organisation. Firm needs to ensure that they are committed as well capable to foster diversity in workplace (Ibarra, H and Ely, R., 2013).
Ans5. Policies in the workplace provides essential guideline and best practices for acceptable behaviour in the organization. The objective of policies is to establish a strong foundation for employees to interact and communicate in way that is aligned with the organization’s value and vision. The world is evolving rapidly and any business that aspires to thrive in future depends upon its human resources. Therefore, it is imperative to embrace inclusion at the same pace as dynamics of market and rate of change. Outline of the legislation, codes of practice and national standards that would be applied to the development of diversity policy (Ibarra, H and Ely, R., 2013).
· Code of practice that relates to diversity, discrimination and equality at the workplace
· Codes of Practice on Equal Pay
· Codes of Practice of Employment
· Codes of Practice on Association, Public gatherings and services
Legislations related to diversity, discrimination and equality that apply in the workplace
· The Human Rights Act formed in year 1998
· The Mental Capacity Act developed in the year 2005
· Act like Data Protection and Care Act
· Social Care and Health Act in year 2012
Assignment 2
Report to the CEO
Three Potential Benefits of Organisational Diversity for Soft-Authent's in accordance of achieving the Strategic Objective
Diversity at Soft-Authent implies that organisation provides a platform for wide spectrum of diverse individuals which includes people from different gender, religion, race, language as well as education abilities to excel and grow. One of the major drawbacks that hinders the growth of Soft-Authent is its lack of attention to the organisation's diversity policy. Firstly, as it is evident from the case study majority of the workforce accounts to be male and very few represents the female strength. Statically, speaking 95% accounts to be male while only 5% accounts to be female. On top of that organisation fails to leverage the cultural diversity since maximum of employee strength accounts to be white. Therefore, if Soft-Authent is able to construct a dedicated diversity policy they can benefit from below mentioned advantages
1. Diversity enhances Productivity - Performance and productivity form the heart of any organisation. Diversity in the organisation advances healthy competition among the employees such that it boosts the moral of employees. Employees belonging to diverse cultural background brings their unique skills on the table.
2. Enhances Creativity & Innovation- Creativity is the mental ability to enhance unique ideas and create something new. Extension of creativity is innovation which primarily is transformation of these unique...