Workforce Diversity: Towards Bringing Creativity and Innovation in Organizations

Sharma, Nisha; Arora, Pallvi

Abstract

Globalization has led to increasing interconnectedness enabling the workforce in organizations to become highly diverse in nature. On one hand where we analyze diversity in terms of its composition, on its other hand we see it in terms of differential perspectives that can bring about greater flexibility, better decision making and enhanced creativity and innovation. Not only this, workforce diversity enables in bringing a competitive advantage to the organization as well.

The significant positive organizational outcomes that workforce diversity brings with it are inevitable. Multinational organizations globally are endorsing the concept of workforce diversity
as an organizational intervention that helps the organization to develop a creative and innovative mindset for the future upcoming challenges and opportunities.

Considering the array of changes that are shaping the transformations taking place in this interconnected world, the need to acknowledge workforce diversity and adopt the appropriate diversity management techniques to ensure that the best can be extracted in terms of knowledge , skills, efficiency and a positive contribution towards both personal as well as organizational growth. Nonetheless, recognizing the role that both organization culture and environment can play is extremely relevant in the context and cannot be ignored.

Thus, drawing upon the existing literature, the present paper develops and present the conceptual model of the relationship between workforce diversity, innovation and organizational performance.

Citation

Sharma, N., & Arora, P. (2020, January). Workforce Diversity: Towards Bringing Creativity and Innovation in Organizations. Presented at International Conclave on Globalising Indian Thought (GIT 2020), Indian Institiute of Management, Kozikode

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (published)
• Conference Name: International Conclave on Globalising Indian Thought (GIT 2020)
• Start Date: Jan 16, 2020
• End Date: Jan 18, 2020
• Online Publication Date: Jan 16, 2020
• Publication Date: 2020
• Deposit Date: Feb 24, 2025
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Book Title: International Conclave on Globalising Indian Thought Conference Proceedings
• ISBN: 9788192623955
• Keywords: Creativity, Innovation, Workforce diversity, Organizational performance
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/4129916
• External URL: https://forms.iimk.ac.in/research/git2020/GIT2020_Conference_Proceedings.pdf