aCollage of Business and Economics, Department of Management, Jimma University
bAssociate professor, College of Business and Economics, Jimma University
Studies on the workforce diversity and its management has progressively been blooming over the last two decades and now firmly positioned among the hot and burning issues in the field of Human Resource Management and its practice. This conceptual review paper is an attempt to create and elaborate an understanding on the important concepts of diversity, its management and workforce productivity. Moreover the relationship between diversity management, job satisfaction and productivity is explored in depth. Problems presently facing the theoretical side of the diversity management literature also presented in this paper. Finally, this review article calls for an alternative approaches to studying diversity on the basis of critical literature analysis.
Diversity, productivity, workforce