Employees Diversity and Inclusion: A Paradigm Shift in Organizational Management

Abstract

Organizations in today’s global economic arrangement are experiencing increasing changes in the composition of their workforce. Overt and hidden characteristics ranging from surface level to deep level diversity of organizational members are common features of global organizations. Thus, organizations today are faced with the challenges of managing these diverse workgroups. Therefore, this paper sheds light on the concepts of diversity and inclusion as emerging philosophy in global management practice. It aims at providing empirical evidence of the benefits of diversity and inclusion as emerging management concepts as well as the challenges inherent in creating and managing an integrated workforce.

Keywords: Diversity, Inclusion, Workplace/workgroup, Organization, Strategy,   Management