An Analytical Study Of Challenges And Issues To Manage Workforce Diversity

Management being a social discipline deals with the behavior of people and human insight. There are differences among human beings with regards sex, gender, race, colour, attitude, personality, physical abilities and disabilities. This heterogeneity in people causes people to reaction to actions, events and situations differently. It is generally recognized that there is diversity in the workforce of any enterprise, be it business, government, or civil society. Hence, workforce diversity is the biggest challenge. Workforce diversity has significant implications for the management. The managers will be required to shift their approach from treating each group of workers alike to recognizing differences among them and following such policies so as to encourage creativity, improve productivity, reduce labor turnover and avoid any sort of discrimination. It is recommended that company executives use good strategies to effectively manage workforce diversity and collaborative research efforts should be done to ascertain the contextual variables that moderate workforce diversity to produce positive performance outcomes. This study, therefore, highlights issues in and challenges on management of diversity in organizations. It concludes with emphasis that organizations should strive to increase its employees ’diversity and use the diverse workforce to its benefits.