Managing Diverse Workforce

Table of contents:

Executive cummary

1. Introducion

1.1. Global context.

2. Issues connected with managing diversity.

2.1. Conslusion

3. Diversity Policies and PriceWaterHouse Coopers case in relation to global issues connected with managing diversity.

4. Positive impact of diversity on business performance

4.1. Cost effective relations

4.2. Diversity enhances customer relations

4.3 Diversity improves workforce quality and performance in terms of diverse skills, creativity, problem-solving and flexibility.

5. Negative impact of diversity on business performance

5.1. Diversity diminishes ‘cultural relatedness’

5.2. Organizational slack and tight fit may conflict

5.3. Flexibility, which managing diversity fosters, needs to be financially supported

6. Conclusion

7. Recommendations.

Executive summary:

Report highlights the rising issue of a diverse workforce that is affecting companies in highly developed countries and draws a context based on one of the biggest advisory consultancies in UK – Pricewaterhouse Coopers. Findings introduce issues connected with a diversity in a global context, and further analysis presents how these can be harnessed using a diversity policy in a Pricewaterhouse Coopers. Challenges in the face of multiculturalism in UK are being compared with current practice of investigated company and further analysis introduces pros as well as cons of diversity that companies have to face nowadays. In the end, report provides recommendations to PriceWaterhouse coopers, that can be further introduced to their diversity company to enhance competitiveness of the company on the market.

1) Select one large commercial organization and evaluate its diversity policy and the impact on its business performance.

1. Introduction:

PriceWaterHouse Coopers is a large organization employing over 161,718 highly skilled, professional employees (datamonitor 2011) with its headquarters in London .The company...