What are some of the benefits of promoting diversity in the workplace?

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What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

Managing diversity requires developing new ways of measuring how diversity as a business competency aligns with business strategies to achieve growth, profitability, and sustainably. There are a number of benefits to promoting diversity in the workplace. 

1) Improving corporate culture by unleashing creativity and performance
2) Facilitating recruitment of new employees, who prefer to work where they can expect to advance
3) Improving relationships with clients
4) Increasing understanding of cross-cultural work teams and global markets
5) Increasing employee morale, productivity, and retention
6) Expanding the global reach and cross-cultural expertise of the organization
7) Decreasing employee complaints and litigation

By designing and supporting an organizational culture that maximizes the benefits of diversity, and using that culture to manage various groups of organizational members such as project teams, business startup teams, customer service response teams, the sales force, and top management, businesses can better position themselves to achieve a number of goals.