the effects of culture on diversity management in organizations in Kenya. Secondly, it highlights the literature related factors that affect culture and in turn diversity management in organizations in Kenya such as technology, level of skilled workers, policies enforced by organizations in Kenya, and the level of resources available to them. The chapter also analysed literature related to other aspects that effect diversity management in organizations in Kenya. 2.2 To determine the extent to which
this is influencing organizations requires carefully focusing on: the methods for establishing component priorities, determining reliance / dependencies and providing recommendations for the development of the plan. Together, these elements will highlight the most important aspects which should be taken into account. Describe the methods for establishing component priorities Establishing component priorities is an essential ingredient in determining how effective an organization will be in dealing
positive and negative attributes for each. Secondly, to elaborates on the general systems theory and boundaryless organizations. Additionally, it compares the challenges, pros, and cons of the virtual and traditional teams. Lastly, it differentiates a shareholder from a stakeholder and addresses the concept of emerging stakeholders. Organizational Structures Alexis Writing (n.d.) states, “organizations are set up in specific ways to accomplish different goals, and the structure of an organization can help
demographic changes in many industrialized countries, organizations are experiencing increased age diversity (Hertel, Van der Heijden, de Lange, & Deller, 2013a). In the US, this is due to the aging baby boom generation (Schram, 2006), and organizations are faced with adjusting to the changing demographic. By contrast, in Europe and China the labor force is shrinking (Cheung & Wu, 2013; Schermuly, Deller, & Busch, 2014), thus requiring organizations to find ways to recruit and retain older workers.
Organizations are made up of man & woman, many cultures & races, and multiple generations. Some of the organizations are also comprised of disable employees. This is what we called diversity. Diversity is something that has been around in the organizations for decades. Diversity in Collins Dictionary means, the state or quality of being different or varied and range of different things. It is synonyms to variety, mixture, range, and multiplicity. According to Queensborough Community College in its
PERSPECTIVE Increased Share Holder Value Profits And Cash flow NEGATIVE Driver shortage will have negative impact on capacity of the organisations to operate at full potential and therefore negatively impacting profits, cash flows and market share. Market Share NEGATIVE CUSTOMER PRESPECTIVE Increased Customer Satisfaction Timely Delivery NEGATIVE Driver shortages will effect delivery times negatively. Savings Offered To Customer NEGATIVE Since the organisations will not be able to operate at full
Challenge and Benefit of Diversity for Leaders and Organizations In America, many immigrants do not lose their culture identify like language, religions, and foods. People can identify other people who is Korean-American, Mexican-American, and Italian-American. It shows that many different cultures of people who live in United States, combine like a salad bowl. “Diversity describes race, gender, age, and other individual differences.” (Schermerhorn, 2013) Diversity is not only involves how people
attributes between employees in the same organization." 2. Diversity Programs: Importance of Diversity Programs: Diversity management a critical issue for business organizations Improve the organizational productivity through its human resources 3. Impacts of Diversity Programs at the workplace: Positive impacts: Improve the employee performance and overall organizational productivity Negative impacts: bring a number of issues and challenges which can raise unwanted incidents at the
stressors by workers from different fields. Ethic organizations sought to improve the work quality which leads to performance in many ways. Lawson et al. (2016), studied the impact of workplace intervention on work-family conflict. These authors found a positive effect of workplace intervention on improving affective reactivity behavior to daily stressors. LePine, M. A., et al. (2015), suggests that charismatic leader behaviors considered challenge stressors as more challenging, and showed a tendency
and make other decisions. 2. First challenge 2.1 Diversity One of the primary challenges is that female employees in a number of our branch offices have informally complained that our organization has more men than women in management positions. We can describe this challenge is workforce diversity which means that organizations are becoming more heterogeneous in terms of gender, age, race, ethnicity and sexual orientation (Robbins & Judge, 2010). In this challenge, it is clearly that female employees