Impact of Workplace Diversity on The Performance of The Organizations

The paper attempts to throw some light on the challenges that arise at a workplace due to diverse workforce and how they can be coped with. Diversity refers to the differences among people in a organization in terms of gender, age, personality, education, geographic region, lifestyle origin among others. Managing diversity ensures that there is no effect of this diversity on the productivity of the employee. This paper investigates the reasons for this diversity how it affects the productivity of the employee and the measures through which it can be curbed so that the productivity is not hampered and the employees are able to work in a safe and supportive environment. The diversity whether it is in form of gender, culture, education background or any other influence the life of the employees which in turn greatly affects how he works and behaves at his workplace. It is a well established fact that diversity does cause a problem in the organizations. Many organizations in developed countries like U.S and Canada have large chunk of employees who belong to different other nationalities or cultural background. This fact pushes the need to study this concept even more as productivity remains an important issue in the companies.