Disadvantages Of Managing Diversity

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Topic Year & Author(s) Name of the Journal Title of the paper
Managing Diversity November 2010,
Barbara Mazur,
Politechnika Białostocka Journal of Intercultural Management Cultural Diversity in Organisational Theory and Practice

Summary
The paper tries to communicate the different advantages and disadvantages of diversity in cooperates. The author has analyzed the effects of diversity as taken by firms. For globalization the requirement is interaction among people from diverse cultures, belief and background. Management needs to maximize and capitalize on the workplace diversity. Author encourages diversity in organizations as it bring with it better efficiency and competitive advantages. Author defines diversity in terms of different dimensions. Primary dimensions are like age, gender, race , ethnicity while secondary characteristics can be educational background, geographic location, income and communication style. Further tertiary dimension is also included which include beliefs, assumptions, perceptions, attitudes, feelings , values ,group norms. Secondary characteristics are most malleable and they often change. However the tertiary dimension are core of individual identity. There is a comparative analysis between homogeneity and diversity at the work place. Laboratory studies say that for achieving high performance diversity is necessary while field study says the opposite. Diversity can affect the functioning by four ways. It can cause lower level of

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