WORKPLACE DIVERSITY – ADAPT OR PERISH

Management

Second National Level Interdisciplinary Seminar on "Exploring Emerging Trends and Innovation in Research in Commerce, Science & Technology, Humanities and Social Sciences”

The world is increasingly becoming a global village with boundaries becoming insignificant by the day. Not only internationally, but even domestically we are seeing increased mobility of the workforce creating a diverse mix of ethnic, gender, racial, caste, creed, culture & sensitivities in today’s workforce. And it is but obvious, that when such a diverse mix of people with such diverse backgrounds, come together to work for the same company, the differences are bound to create unprecedented problems which would go on to cause long term damage to the very fabric of the organization. No organization is immune to such diversity at workplace and no organization can bury its head in the sand and pretend that it will be able to ward off such diversity at its workplace. Therefore, it is time for organization’s to step forward & adapt to this workplace diversity in a matured manner, and take the opportunity, as some companies in the case studies given in this paper have done so, to convert this so-called disadvantage, into an opportunity for growth & excellence. This paper throws light on case studies of two major IT giants who have taken the proverbial bull of diversity head-on by the horns and have converted it into their strength. The message this paper conveys is that either the organizations adapt to this phenomenon, or perish in the absence of such adaptability because workplace diversity is here to stay for times to come.

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