Diversity in Organizations Globalization and the Continual

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Globalization and the continual compression of cultures is leading to more emphasis than ever before on how to make diversity work as a competitive strength in organizations today. This is especially the case for global businesses that are making decisions on how to keep complex projects moving forward right now. This paper concentrates defining how important it is for global businesses to understand the nature of diversity, providing guidance on how the best global companies make thought leadership a core strength today. Creating and sustaining a diversified productive environment is challenging even the best-run enterprises today. Insights into managing diversity-related conflicts based on the lessons gained from the videos and cited peer-reviewed articles also provide a glimpse into how companies today are making the most of diversity programs.

The Nature of Diversity as a Global Competitive Advantage

Diversity is happening in organizations that make it a priority every day, and strive to make each decision reflect that focus. The best run companies making those decisions right now are centering each decision on what is best for each applicant and potential employee, regardless of their ace, creed, religion or ethnicity. With the continual accelerating nature of globalization, the best-run global businesses are designating champions who take responsibility daily for their performance of their firms on this vital dimension of performance. "Perhaps the single most effective step that can be taken toward achieving diversity in the workplace is in helping your people pioneer programmes. This involves assigning "champions" to the company's cause, someone or some group of individuals who will be totally dedicated and devoted to bringing about successful diversity within their immediate working environment and throughout their organisation" (Harisis, Kleiner, 1993,-page 8). Making diversity work on a daily basis takes the assigning of accountability and responsibility to each and every aspect of the hiring, management and evaluation processes used globally in an enterprise.

Making Diversity Pay in a Work Environment:

Steps Managers Are Taking To Sustain a Diversified and Productive Environment

Examples are readily available today showing how ineffective managers are in making hiring decisions where diversity is an issue. This is seen in the assigned video for class,

Diversity in Hiring: Candidate Conundrum (McGraw-Hill Media, 2010) where two managers are arguing about which is the better hire. One candidate is Caucasian, blond and blue-eyed and clearly Paul, the hiring manager, favors her. Robert, Pauls' manager says that Jacqueline is the better candidate. She happens to be African-American, shows initiative and focus as he resume is full of extracurricular activities, and is able to engage with the company's monitory clients more effectively, Robert reasons. The scenario on the video plays out and shows just how divisive hiring decisions are today when it comes to diversity.