Diversity Management and Its Challenges for 21stcentury Managers: Systematic Literature Review and Future Research (Published)
The aim of the article is to understand the diversity management and its Challenges for managers in 21stcentury to manage and value diversity within organizations/institutions. Globalization has a very big influence on the diversity management these days, both directly and indirectly. This study was based on a systematic review of 25 journal articles presented on the concerned topic. It was divided into three main parts: the review describes benefits of diversity management in today’s globalization, manager’s role in managing and valuing diversity and workforce diversity management and its biggest challenge for 21stcentury managers so as to playing the role in the diverse management. According to the finding of this systematic review, it is pertinent to note that, there are some emerging issues in workforce diversity, which include multicultural task environment, existence of large talent pool used for creating and innovation, inter-functional coordination, complexity and discrimination at work. These issues are brought to bear through globalization, outsourcing and retaining different talented human capital in organizations. Organization should have a framework for workplace diversity management; optimally allocating resources to create a diverse workforce for productivity and excellent performance. Besides giving insight about diversity management and its challenges for 21stmanagers, the purpose of this systematic review is to provide information for the potential researchers about basic aspects of diversity management and challenges for modern public managers in 21stcentury by providing discussions, limitations of the previous literature and some suggestions to the future researchers.
Citation: Hordofa D.N. (2022) Diversity Management and Its Challenges for 21stcentury Managers: Systematic Literature Review and Future Research, Global Journal of Human Resource Management, Vol.10, No.6, pp.32-48
Keywords: Diversity Management, Ethiopia, Globalization, Nekemte, Oromia, Workplace Diversity, challenges for 21st managers
Workforce Diversity Management in Nigeria Public Service: Problems and Prospects (Published)
Workforce diversity management in general term has, become a crucial part of organizational competitiveness and effectiveness not just in Nigeria public service but in other large corporations globally. It is no doubt that diversity management is increasingly becoming a standard of human resources management in contemporary time. Socio-economic forces like globalization and the internationalization of public issues contribute to expand the flow of labour across ethnic and national boundaries and have facilitated the constant exchange of materials, as well as symbolic and human resource. To remain competitive and relevant, the Nigeria public service must acclimatize and manage these environmental socio-economic forces. But the new complexity of work operations demands more diverse functions and the use of more diverse talents. As the need for employee diversity increases, so do the demands, such as the need for effective interaction among diverse employees, this tendency is believed to have potential for conflict and schism among employees. Using the workforce management model this study attempts to highlight the salient feature of this process with a particular emphasis on the problems and prospects associated with workforce diversity management in Nigeria public service.
Keywords: Diversity Management, Nigeria, Public Service, Workforce
Global Workforce Diversity Management and the Challenge of Managing Diversity: Situation on World and in Turkey (Published)
Workforce diversity is a primary concern for most of the businesses. Today’s organizations need to understand and direct workforce diversity effectively. Although many articles have been written on this topic, but there is no detailed research of workforce diversity on global basis. 21th century’s world rapidly increasing globalization requires more attention and interaction among people from diverse cultures, beliefs, and backgrounds than ever before. People no longer live and work in an alone marketplace; they are now part of a worldwide economy with competition coming from nearly every continent. For this reason, profit and non-profit organizations need diversity for being more creative and open to change. The main purpose of this article is to review the recent literature of workforce diversity on global basis and specifically Turkey. Supervisors, academicians and front-line managers could benefit from reading this paper. Supervisors, academicians and managers are the targeted audience because they need to recognize the ways in which the workplace is changing, evolving, and diversifying. It is first presented a brief introduction and definitions of global workforce diversity management. This paper attempts to shed light on what we know and don’t know about global workforce diversity management. Paper mainly includes 4 sections. It starts with the introduction and in that part global workforce diversity management is broadly defined. In section 2, theoretical roots in other words literature review on the subject will be presented. Causal effects of challenges related to global workforce diversity management will be explained and related problems et cetera will be discussed in detail. In section 3, after explaining the regional differences among workforce diversity, insight will be brought up for discussion and comparison with these 4 different regional groups. After that special focus will be given to Turkey and the situation in Turkey will be explained in terms of workforce diversity management. Section 4 will include further research, discussion and conclusion. Besides giving insight about global workforce diversity management for comparison purposes between different continents, the purpose of this paper is to provide information for the potential researchers about basic aspects of global workforce diversity management.
Keywords: Diversity Management, Global Workforce, HRM, Inclusion, Turkey