Diversity in workplace covers gender, age, language, ethnicity, cultural background, sexual orientation, religious belief and family responsibilities,educational level, life experience, work experience, socio-economic background, personality and marital status.
I remember when working with our on site clients.I think there was a diversity of thinking even for the so mentioned diversity above.While I could see some treating other people equally,while I could see others showing lot of discriminations.
Well, diversity is one of the greatest strengths of any company. Unless you have say for example, people with diversity of knowledge,how will a company become successful in executing projects if all of its employees are equally qualified or say qualified in only a single technology. How will the company make any business?
Workplace diversity helps to build the organization's relationship with the community, enhance the contribution of its employees and improve the quality of its products and services, hence increase the turnover which is the ultimate goal of any business/company.
So most companies have come up with diversity training programs where in people are trained in their soft skills for accepting and coming up with diversity.
Major benefits of diversity is increased innovation ,improved service to clients ,better employee relationships with clients as well as co workers.
