Diversity

Diversity In Organizations

Submitted By: Anirban Mohanty (14P127) Apoorva Hambarde (14P131) Harish Reddy (14P140) Prateek Shrivastava (14P154)

Sautraya Bhattacharjee (14P166)

Sneha Reddy (14P171)

Introduction

• Variety of differences existing between people in a working environment can

be termed as Workforce Diversity

ultimately affect their interactions

• Diversity is about how people perceive themselves as well as others which

• Workforce Diversity is not constrained amongst demographical factors like

ethnicity, gender, age, skill-set, personality and education, but also encompasses psychographic factors like extroversion, likeability towards a particular field, etc. a priority, organizations should spend fruitful resources on the same

• For an organization to be successful, managing workforce diversity should be

Objective

• To study the diversities in the various organizations across the country on the

basis of demographical factors like Age, Sex, Ethnicity and Skillset as well as introduce the concept of diversity in psychographic factors

Gardenswartz Rowe Diversity Wheel

• Diversity can be classified into four dimensions – Personal, Internal, External and Organizational • Internal Dimensions: Age, Gender and Ethnicity • External Dimension: Work Experience/Skill Set • We shall also highlight two other factors- one Internal (sexual orientation) and one External (parental/marital status or Life Stage).

Significance of Diversity

• Help in fostering a group and assist learning • Diversity is what is not present in us, but, in the team or group in which we

belong

• Diversity affects a lot of factors in the workplace like performance,

motivation, learning, interaction, behaviour and thinking.

Managing Diversity Vs Affirmative Action

• Diversity management deals with getting to see that all of the diverse

workforce gets to contribute to the organizational goals

• Affirmative action focuses on some particular groups...