Diversity in the workplace
The work place as we new it, is no longer black and white. There are now many gray areas and diversity has filled every nuke and cranny of today’s industries. All companies are required to maintain a certain amount of diversity by law, in order not to fall under the legal battle of discrimination. A group of team members should be different in many ways so that they could build a high level of performance. There are many factors that come into play when looking at the harmony of a team. “When teams are relatively homogeneous—that is, when members are similar in respect to such things as age, gender, race, and experience,—there are certain potential benefits for group dynamics. It will probably be easy for members to quickly build social relationships and engage in the interactions needed for teamwork. (Schermerhorn, 2005)” In the proceedings will be discussed four of the topics mentioned above.
First, when looking at the multicultural aspects of a diversified group one has to take into consideration all the various ages involved that make up a team. A team is much more apt to succeeding if there is a multitude of ages working towards the same goal of team effort. For example, if a company was to only higher the older crowd because they are more knowledgeable and experienced, it will have to face the fact that, that same group of older workers will be more apprehensive to new and different ways, points of view and styles of handling business. This older much more experienced set of folks will be reluctant in changing the ways that they have worked in for many years and some times decades, which will in turn hinder the team from moving from point A to point B. In the organization for which I work ...