2016•Advances in religious and cultural studies (ARCS) book seriesOpen access

New Trends in Leveraging Workforce Diversity through Human Resource Management Initiatives

Mercedes Sánchez‐Apellániz, Rafael Triguero‐Sánchez

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Tremendous forces are radically reshaping the world of work and workforce diversity is steadily growing. If effective diversity management can only be achieved by means of the use of appropriate human resources strategies, HRM need to change his role. This chapter intends to explore such new trends and new practices on HRM, analyze which of them can be employed and which are more appropriate for an optimal management of workforce diversity and to obtain a competitive advantage for companies in the global economy.

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Key concepts: Workforce, Workforce diversity, Diversity (politics), Human resource management, Business, Competitive advantage, Diversity management, Human resources