Question

While this chapter discussed the many benefits of diversity, an alternative view suggests that no empirical evidence exists to show that a diverse workforce has a positive effect on organizational performance, employee commitment, and employee satisfaction. In fact, anecdotal evidence indicates that diversity can negatively affect business performance because of the possibility for internal conflict, dissension, and turnover. What is your reaction to this perspective in light of the content of this chapter? Do these arguments have merit? Why or why not?

Answer 1

Explanation:

An organization with a diverse workforce can have several competitive and strategic advantages, and consequently increase its long-term profitability.

Such advantages can be explained according to the current world, which is increasingly globalized and with ever smaller relative distances between countries and their culture, economy and society. Therefore, it is necessary for companies to adopt diversity as an additional variable in the development of the company's human capital with regard to innovation, creativity, in addition to increasing the value of perception of its stakeholders, who consider the most diverse companies to be the most innovative and aware of their role as promoters of a more equal society for all.