Workplaces
are becoming more diverse within the organizations day by day. The CEO of
fortune 500 believed that workforce diversity is basically a vital business
imperative (Gilbert and Ivancevich,2000). Since diversity indicate admittance
of all the groups at different levels in an esteemed organization. Therefore,
handling diversity expertly has become a day to day issue and utmost
challenging task for all the organization throughout the entire world
regardless about the structure of the organization. Hence, efficiently managing
diversity issues and other necessity activities such as recruitment, selecting
the right person for the right job and training of the employees is very much
essential for an organizations growth and development. The cultural diversity
can add value and if it can be effectively used in the proper context can
contribute in an organization competitive advantage (Orlando,2000). But then most
of the organization do not pay much attention to the diversity at the workplace.
So, its implications for useful administration, use of workers, individuals and
groups (Stone,2002). Workplace diversity indicates to the amount to which an
organization is culturally diverse. It is an array of differences between an organization,
these diversities encompass race, gender, ethnic group, age, personality, tenure,
education, organizational function, background and more. There is no decisive definition
of diversity. However (Cox,2001) define diversity as” the variation of social and
cultural identities among people existing together in a defined employment or market
setting”. Through this article the author tries to define that diversity in a workplace
or in an esteemed business organization exist through social such as different religion
and cultural such as their own language, dressing, food habits etc.(Thomas,1995)
agreed that diversity does not related directly to “Race and Gender” describes diversity
as not synonymous with differences but encompasses differences and similarities.