Management of workforce diversity to increase organizational effectiveness has become essential in the current fast changing business environment across the globe. Globalization has boosted the worker mobilisation at national and international levels. The meaningful diversity process management becomes the need due to one or other benefits in the highly rich intellectual awareness and understanding of recent and emerging themes. In a short survey of 141 employees working in different industries located in Uttarakhand, it was found that discrimination exists in outcomes of workforce diversity with respect to satisfaction, expectation and performance of the employees. The absence of benchmarking the processes and activities for any business is evident in this study. The study also reveals the absence of organizational strategy towards the enhancement of the diversity competency to a great extent. Some of the organizational outcomes of workforce diversity as perceived by the employees of different cadres are also discussed in this paper.
Workforce Diversity, cultural diversity, benchmarking, workforce mobilisation
