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Organizational Diversity

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Organizational Diversity

Introduction

In many workplaces, it's normal to find friendly rivalry because each of the employees has a different preference, opinion, different education level, different background, different personality, age, culture, and different ethnicity. Workplace diversity refers to the variety of differences between the people in an organization or workplace ( ). It involves how a worker perceives him/herself and the other workers which determine how he/she relates to others. Rivalry competition sometimes is healthy because it encourages each person to excel in his/her work making the job more interesting and exciting. The rivalry is also a bad thing if it gets out of hand and can cause agitation and confusion in the workplace.

Assessment of findings in Miami, FL

In Miami, there is a sporting rivalry in professional and college teams’ competition and the pressure is felt by the team’s funs. The rivalry has gone it the extreme that people are hurt, riots, fights, hooliganism, and end of career to some players. There are many popular sports clubs in Miami each having its fans. Each fun supports his/her team due to devoted passion which drives him/her to feel a sense of belonging, to socialize, nostalgia, preference, and love for the game.

This pressure leads to the funs defending their teams even to the extreme levels without minding its impacts on the society whether positive or negative. This leads to the office workers in Miami to move from the friendly rivalry to the extreme rivalry. These causes fights and riots and the employees moving from one place to another looking for work in peaceful areas. The organizations face major challenges including loss of property, low production, and shortage of labor, poor management, and low production among others.

The conflict has attributed to extending that team player and funs seeing each other as enemies. This has led the team players to believe that there is no fair game which leads to more chaos. Hatred, jealousy, cruelty, boasting in thee offices have also let to conflicts leading to Miami FL to raise concerns. The unfairness in the game blows up the violence causing ethnicity tensions and social separation

Assessment of findings in Kansas City, MO

In Kanas City, MO offices, people began hanging together talking about the breakups of their past relationships with same-sex partners. This has made homosexuality, heterosexuality, and multiple-partner relationships. Petition circulating in Kanas City Office has banned the discussions. In many workplaces, there are policies regarding sexual orientation. People have a variety of differences in the workplace which makes it important for such discussions to be banned. Such discussions should be private and should not be held in the workplace.

Religious people have played a major role in banning the discussion because of their religious beliefs. Morally, people should respect each other feelings on certain matters and these led to the banning of the discussions. Workplace ethics have not met the management had to ban them to respect these ethics and provide a good working environment. The discussion let to sexual immorality and harassment in the workplace. It also made the level of insecurity especially for women to be high creating fear. The workers became lazy and forgot their duties which led to low production in the organizations.

Recommendation for addressing these findings to the Executive Leadership Council (ELC) for review

Diversity constitutes of variety of people each having his/her own culture belief (Syed.J, et.al n.d) the management has to recognize these and make rules to make sure that every worker is satisfied and can work effectively in a good working environment. People should be brought close to each other to form one unit for the sake of the organization's prosperity.

Management should identify what motivates the workforce and fostering healthier competition may help eliminate the negative feelings that may arise from people who get overly competitive (Mitchell, S. (2016). Employees should find common ground through sports to counter competitive tensions and if the tension is not controlled, then one should distance himself/herself from his/her rival/competitor.

As a manager, intervene early when a fight or rivalry erupts between workers. The sooner you step in the better because when a dispute starts, emotions can run high hence making it harder for management to diffuse the extreme situation. The management should conduct diversity training to help increase awareness about diversity issues, reduces biases and stereotypes and change behaviors of employees (Bond & Haynes, 2014).

Benefits of diversity

Increases adaptability: Workers bring many ideas from their different opinions, working experience that helps the organization in making decisions (Martin, 2014).

Improves employee engagement-when the employees share their thoughts and experiences, they learn about different cultures and lifestyles which bonds their relationship and motivation in the workplace.

-Reduces racism and improves insights- when different people meet they learn new culture insights from each other and this reduces negative attitude towards each other thus reducing racism and sexism.

-Gaining reputation- When a company recruits and employs new workers from different cultures it gains a reputation from its customers.

-It also helps the company to have good customer service as it has different employees globally from different cultures and languages

Disadvantages of diversity

- Lack of effective communication- when people from different cultures meet each having a different language, there is a lack of good communication which is a key to business success.

-Unfair equality- Diversity leads to the employment of overqualified staff due to job insecurity. The

Individuals with great skills and education are employed to do manual jobs.

-Diversity brings people with a different culture, opinion, and too many ideas in the workplace that makes it hard for the company to settle on a decision.

Increased hostility- when sharing opinions and ideas a certain group may decide to support their person based on their culture or religious beliefs leading to disagreements.

Accommodation of beliefs- some workers impose their cultural beliefs into the workplace which leads to disagreements and sometimes violence.

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References

 Bond, M., & Haynes, M. (2014). Workplace Diversity: A Social-Ecological Framework and Policy Implications. Social Issues And Policy Review, 8(1), 167-201. DOI: 10.1111/sipr.12005

Syed, J., Klarsfeld, A., Ngunjiri, F., & Härtel, C. Religious diversity in the workplace.

Mitchell, S. (2016). Top Ten Tips: How to manage diverse teams. Retrieved from http://www.managementtoday.co.uk/top-ten-tips-manage-diverse-teams/leadership-

lessons/article/1181428

Martin, G. (2014). The Effects Of Cultural Diversity In The Workplace. Journal Of Diversity Management (JDM), 9(2), 89-92. DOI: 10.19030/jdm.v9i2.8974