ORGANISATIONAL DIVERSITY CASE STUDY $(30$ MARKS$)$

Diversity in the workplace means employing people of different ages, genders, ethnicities, sexual orientations, cultural backgrounds, and education levels. Not only is diversity crucial for creativity and social justice, but research also shows that a diverse workplace is good for the bottom line. In fact, companies with a diverse workforce are $35\%$ more likely to

experience greater financial returns than their respective non$-$diverse counterparts.

A team that has a variety of worldview perspectives can educate employees and clients and reach untapped customer demographics. This opens the conversation to new, unexplored, and different ideas. In fact, companies with greater diversity are $70\%$ more likely to capture more markets and with more markets comes a bigger audience which equals more

profit. This can be a game$-$changer in the professional world.

Yet, employers still do not embrace diversity. Roughly $57\%$ of employees feel their company can be doing more and $41\%$ of

managers admit to being $$too busy$$ to implement diversity inclusion programs.

Question $1(15$ Marks$)$

Assume that you are currently working in a monolithic organisation. Drawing from the extract and from your knowledge of diversity, strongly argue why is it necessary for your organisation to have a diverse workforce and highlight the benefits it will gain from this.

Question $2(15$ Marks$)$

Diversity in the workplace means employing people of different ages, genders, ethnicities, sexual orientations, cultural backgrounds, and education levels. You work in an organisation that has a diverse workforce in terms of gender, culture, race, ethnicity, age, religion, and educational level. Elaborate on the barriers and challenges that may arise with having such a diverse workforce and provide relevant original example$($s$)$ for each.