2.10. Diversity Concepts
As businesses become global entities employing individuals with diverse cultural, racial, and ethnic backgrounds, understanding diversity in the workplace becomes more critical to organizational success. Organizations implementing programs to increase diversity realize benefits such as improved productivity and bottom-line results for shareholders. There are many other business reasons to make workplace diversity a priority:
A diverse workforce is more creative
Increasing the variety of perspectives available to an organization brings new points of view to decision-making processes, challenging conventional wisdom and creating an atmosphere that encourages the synergy of ideas.
A diverse workforce reflects the population ...
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