negative effects. The workplace is one of the examples that affected by globalization. To illustrate, globalization of work force grow and changes rapidly the working environment to be more diversity. For instance, race, ethnicity, society, religion, dialect, country of origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, physical capacities, occupation, and class. Where, these distinctions impact working connections among the workers (Jalad, n.d., ¶2). Therefore,…
are many positive aspects to diversity in the workplace, such as exchange of ideas because of the diverse cultures of employees, the development of friendship without discrimination, workers learn to cope up with the diverse environment, stereotyping is eliminated, retention of employees are more likely due to healthy competition. On the other side, there is a negative part which includes communication gaps due to language barrier and resistance to change. Diversity is any dimension that can be…
backgrounds. Diversity can also include different opinions of individuals. Outside of the norms of diversity, such race, and genders, there other options in how a workplace is diversified. This comes from allowing the individual employees to express their own opinions on policies, products, and how business is obtained. Workplace diversity promotes a mutual respect among employees. If it is employees working as teams with a variety of workstyles, or co-workers in whom represent different…
Diversity in the workplace allows an organization to explore multiple avenues of reasoning when dealing with work related issues. Personality traits, types, and disorders can be a powerfully influence on human relations at work and in many case these dynamics can be crucial to the success or failure of an organization (Miller, 2003). In 2008, Melissa Wong, Elliroma Gardiner, Whitely Lang and Leah Coulon, conducted a study to examine whether personality and motivational driver differences exist…
greatest assets. Employees play a pivotal role in the enterprise, and the expand the growth of the business (Pollitt, 2008, p.5) Leadership within the workplace maximizes the skills and success of individuals. Leadership that values their employees emphasizes their mission and vision to build a community focusing on experience and future improvements. Managing a team and evaluating employees provides information and feedbacks to employees to help them improve their performances. Characteristics,…
communication skills, managing diversity, managing technology, decision making, organizing politics, managing change, also motivation and taking initiative (Jones, 2015, p.41). From my personal opinion and experiences, the two most vital skills from…
As I have become more comfortable with the process of evaluating and implementing new technologies to enhance productivity in the workplace, I have increasingly wanted to move into a role that is purely focused on technology management. Managing technology at TopClick Strategies has been some of the most enjoyable work that I’ve undertaken, and it’s easy for me to get excited about new, high-tech opportunities that make my teams more productive…
rampant in the workplace over thirty years later. According to the Workplace Gender Equality Agency the current pay gap stands at 16.0% (as of February 2017) and 69.1% of men are employed full time compared to just 40.7% of women. This illustrates how the nature of this law fails to address distinct elements that define sexism in Australia. Despite this 82% of discrimination complaints relating to employment are made under this act and with many resulting in some form of compensation and change.…
Introduction “Rapid internationalization and globalization have resulted in a diverse workforce in most Western countries”(Netto et. al 2014). A diverse workplace refers to the variety of differences between people in an organisation… which encompassses race, gender, ethnic group, age, … education, background.. “ (Greenberg 2004). Establishing a diverse workforce allows organisations to have different solutions in solving the problems within the organisation, it also provides a wider service to…
generation. The transition to social conflict framework which states that it is a framework that sees society as an arena of inequality that generates conflict and change. Given the conflict going on at the workplace such as communication, resilience and training. We now have several key points in the workplace that are going to change. For example most of the detriment was caused by the top of the hierarchy which is the superintendent. The current superintendent has now retired and the new one…