Challenges of Managing Diversity
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Challenges of Managing Diversity
According to Casio, (2013) many business entities find it very difficult to manage people from different social settings and cultures especially when appointing to executives. In the end, they choose people they trust for these positions.
Dansby, et al, (2012) explains that an organizations policies and practices dictate how to deal with each employee needs. There would be cases were the minority groups especially women feel that they are being discriminated against when it comes to appointments or certain positions where as the policies demand for males to serve in those capacities.
Key Elements in Blahna’s Successful Diversity Strategy
In world wide business practice, different ways of managing diverse work force are emerging. The expansion of business to world market has demanded for review of recruitment processes and there posses a challenge as the employees come from different social settings (Mor-Barak, 2011).
Consulting Pairs Approach
Consulting pairs approach to managing diversity is an approach to uses an entity that can conduct a survey of employees relationship and cultures and recommend to management the effective ways of dealing with diversity. There may be use of questionnaires that are given out to employees to fill.
Steps taken to ensure that the Consulting Pairs Approach is working
Companies that have adopted consulting pairs in managing diversity have come up with different methods of managing diversity that are shared upon and improved spontaneously (Rothwell and Benscoter, 2012). They have identified areas of miscommunications and intolerance. They is a policy in place that is used to deal with such eventualities.