The Diversity At The Workplace - 747 Words

Thomas (1992) entails the diversity at workplace in terms of all ancestry, ethnicity, age, gender, race, educational background, sexual orientation, marital status, religious belief, income, geographic location and work experience. The mobility in human resource trend is emerging within the competitive market that requires more strategic role on account of human resource management. Organizations may fall in dire consequences of outplaying by other competitors in strategic employment. Nowadays, workforce is no longer a set of employees (Narasimhan, 2004). It is composed of workforce constituting employees that work for operating remotely, compensated hourly or might be actually working for some external firm. The ethnic minorities in the†¦show more content†¦Research shows that only 25 % of employees within a company feel comfortable with learning environment based on digital networking and technology. It has been observed that providing employees with the opportunities of t eaching roles makes learning a natural part for employees to work effectively and together instead of something HR tends to force them to do (Walker and Walker, 1992). Analytics of people and HR It is a strategy that has been recently evolved, has the ability to change the way HR works. Advantages of analytics potential can help to boost the organization’s status (Wood, 1999). However, lack of analytics’ perception leads towards creating additional challenges for diverse workforce of minorities in an organization. Alternatives of talent Use of machines and technology to analyze, speak, decision making and reading has also impacted adversely on performance of minorities at all levels. Most of the jobs are eliminated. Dissemination of personal information It is beneficial for the organization to access the employee’s data from external source. Despite of the least significant issue for minorities, almost 52 percent of the employees’ responded for the importance of employee’s data everywhere. These organizations utilize information for leverage. It also generates good revenue. Employment laws The enforcement of state laws has contributed to the importance and