Introduction

There is no doubt that today¡¦s business world is changing rapidly and many factors are also simultaneously interacting.  Perhaps these factors are created by diversity.  
According to the dictionary, diversity is a point or respect in which things differ.  In fact, diversity in the population, the work force and the market place give many benefits for organizations.  Managers are to gain more knowledge on internal diversity in order to maximize the efficiency of workforce and profit. Therefore, not only are changes inevitable while competition and improvement interacting, but also globalization is a crucial factor affecting all organizations.  This essay will focus on and analyze some themes related to the diversity in today¡¦s competent business environment and a successful example will be discussed at the end of this paper.

Reform of traditional management

Bell and Harrison (1995) have an opinion on the ¡§past leaders¡¨.  In the past business world, leader were required to show that they have the strongest ability among all other staff.  Centralization of power seems to be the characteristics of a leader and certain information control helps to maintain leader control and management.  As far as making profit is concerned, centralization coursed a lot of red tape and poor performance.  Therefore, it is about time there was a reform. 

Moreover, advanced technology has urged the reform of workplace nowadays.  According to Casey, C. (1999), technological changes change the concept of leadership.  The development of advance technology facilitates and speeds up the flow of information.  Techniques, information and skills become possible to ...