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BENEFITS OF ORGANIZATIONAL DIVERSITY 4

Benefits of Organizational Diversity

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Benefits of Organizational Diversity

As the consultant assigned to assess organizational environment in Miami, Florida and the Kansas City, Missouri offices, I will apply my experience and skills in order to fully study the benefits that organizational diversity has in regards to business and the market. The main task will be assessing the environment while putting emphasis on strengths and weaknesses experienced in the two offices. The two offices act as service centers for Fig technologies hence making all employees perform similar tasks. On the other hand, managers in both sites are mandated to offer oversight role of monitoring the performance of each employee. In addition, the two offices have a huge cross section of locals who stay within the vicinity, university graduates from institutions nearby as well as transfers that occur within the organization between the two branches. Therefore, due to the facts above, my task will be assessing the two branches independently.

Assessment of findings in Miami, Florida

The Miami office has nurtured the value of organizational culture despite concerns being raised in regards to interpersonal relationships. There is a friendly rivalry that exists between this office and the local college team and the professional sports. This rivalry is healthy and it has less effect to the quality of work being produced by the employees. Friendly rivalry usually becomes a source of not only motivation but also inspiration that helps the employees to aim for the value of the organization. As a result, friendly interactions are developed regularly. Moreover, problem solving skills as well as creativity are molded by the leadership scheme that exist in the organization. However, there have been concerns and complains being raised that point out to an extreme rivalry that is being prominent in the organization. Therefore, there are obvious conditions of conflict growth in the workplace. Due to the fact that software developers from south Africa and brazil have been unable to excite people about futbol instead of football, diverse workforce has to be trained to maintain a flexible organizational culture.

Assessment of findings in Kansas City, Missouri

In the office at Kansas City, employees do not align with the set code of conduct established by the organization making the behavior and culture less effective. Due to the set code of ethics, employees’ behavior and attitudes can be regulated. The new breed of activity being done by employees is violating the code of ethics. Employees have begun hanging out together, while speaking openly about their same sex relationships that are coupled with having multiple partners which form part of the heterosexual and homosexual behaviors. This behavior does not fall in any professional line because employees tend to major on personal issues including the intimate relationships that they have with co-employees. Hence, there has been a petition raised around the city office that targets ending this culture. Moreover, organizational diversity is absent in all creativity and problem solving because employees seldom attend meetings nor share their ideas.

Recommendations

My recommendations to the executive leadership council will contrast between the disadvantages and the advantages of organizational diversity. Through diversity, organizational culture can easily sprout and grow. Organizational culture helps people to learn more about other cultures while accepting the incorporation of new skills and experience that help increase the efficiency and productivity. On the contrary, organizational culture may become a source of internal conflict which eventually results into lack of contribution. Therefore, it becomes critical to establish the essence of combining these issues in order to have a robust and dynamic organizational culture. Diversity will be strengthened through teamwork and enhanced communication. A positive atmosphere will be created when these two aspects are functional across the hierarchy of leadership in the workplace. It is therefore evident that the inclusion of minority groups has affected the organizational demographic composition. Therefore, the organization has to work on managing diversity at this office. The diversity that has to be implemented in this office includes multiculturalism and color blindness. The benefits of diversity in the organization include creativity promotion, teamwork establishment and conflict prevention. According to Stevens et al. (2008) inclusive multiculturalism is usually a catalyst for positive organizational change and social capital development. Also, positive relationships have proved to be helping employees grow to their full potential. As a result, the organization has to invest in supervisory support that will ensure employees are motivated and satisfied while at he workplace.

Perspectives on the findings

My skills, knowledge and experience have been instrumental in the research. Effective leadership is a fundamental aspect that enables organizations to diversify the workplace. Therefore, the organization needs to improve the leadership positions in both offices in order to improve the motivation and satisfaction of all employees. The best way of promoting staff at the workplace is through focusing on their creativity instead of their educational background or cognitive ability (Chamorro, 2017). Therefore, for the diversity to be effective, the organization has to ensure that leadership roles are well stipulated which will ensure that all employees abide by the set code of ethics. In the long run, employees will be allowed to focus on activities that help in improving their creativity and innovation.

References

Chamorro-Premuzic, T. (2017). “Does Diversity actually increase creativity?” Harvard Business Review, 28 June 2017. Retrieved from:https://hbr.org/2017/06/does-diversity-actually-increase-creativity

Stevens, F. G., Plaut, V. C., Sanchez-Burks, J. (2008). “Unlocking the Benefits of Diversity All-Inclusive Multiculturalism and Positive Organizational Change,” The Journal of Applied Behavioural Science,44(1): 116-133