Communications and Media

Purpose  the purpose of this study is to understand diversity and its corresponding impact within business strategies and towards implementing effective management of issues surrounding the workplace.

Rationale  the study seeks to identify patterns where diversity is existent in the workplace (e.g. demographics and discrimination) and determine its impact as well as the trends that influence organizations to rethink their steps in addressing this issue accordingly.

Methodology  this study looked into existence of diversity management as a context and sought to apply this within existing demographics available. In particular, it sought to identify the weaknesses of organizations in handling diversity and apparent mistakes in the process.

Findings  the findings suggest that organizations need to enhance their diversity management in recognizing the importance of goal-creation and other areas shaping policy such as (1) diversity recruiting, (2) fair and equal employee development and (3) involving diversity champions within the organizations. At the same time, it is also essential to address the process of community involvement to better shape policies.

Conclusion  the study argued that the environment surrounding the application of diversity is constantly changing. Thus, companies need to continuously assess their diversity approaches and create new goals to sustain involvement and commitment to these efforts.

Authors argument  the main argument by Code looks into the ability of companies to create and recognize patterns of diversity happening in the environment. It corresponds to the capacity of establishing goal-oriented approaches together with community involvement to induce better ways of understanding diversity and its trends.