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Hardus Van Zyl
AbstractThe aim of this article is to determine the impact that employee diversity attributes have on labour productivity in the South African workplace. Given the perceived general low levels of labour productivity in the South African economy, this par...
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David M. Akinnusi,Olubukunola O. Sonubi,Adebukola E. Oyewunmi
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The paper provides a conceptual understanding and significance of diversity and especially workplace diversity in Nigeria, drawing on previous studies. Naturally, the practice of HRM cannot be divorced from the socio-cultural, economic, political and leg...
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Mary A. Krome
This paper provides a theoretical framework for studying the role of knowledge transformation processes in leveraging the diversity of top management teams to improve firm performance. Previous research on the effect of workforce diversity on firm perfor...
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Ephraim A. Okoro, Melvin C. Washington
The twenty-first century organizations are increasingly becoming multicultural workplaces for communication. This paper explores recent literature on the increasing global influence of workforce diversity and its affect on workplace communication. It pro...
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Arlise P. McKinney
Increased diversity representations in higher education create both opportunities and challenges for diversity management. Both in education and the workforce, one challenge has been to achieve equal access and opportunity for diverse groups because of d...
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James L. Morrison, G. Titi Oladunjoye, Dale Rose
The evidence gathered through this research supports the conclusion that the perceptions of leaders regarding who is more effective in addressing workforce diversity issues are more likely to be significantly different depending on the degree of presence...
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Daria C. Crawley, Charlotte Broaden, Darlene Y. Motley
Employment predictions continue to forecast increasing racial diversity in the American workforce as firms face global competition and strive to grasp the challenges of a global business landscape. As American multinational corporations use expatriate as...
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Victoria L. Figiel, Mary Ann Kummel Sasser
Diversity is examined beyond the traditional definitions in the context of employers and the changing workforce. Realization by employers of non-compliance with diversity policies is revealed, as well as an exploration of reasons why perceptions and ling...
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Ali Halici,Ramazan Aktas,Murat Kasimoglu,Ahu Genis Gruber
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Today, workforce diversity is not only a legal requirement for organizations, but it is also a must to survive in a highly competitive business environment. The prime motive for this study is to investigate the relationship between workforce diversity an...
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Namrata Kapur,B. Janakiram
The greatest challenge of the 21st century for multinational organizations is the effective management of its diverse workforce. Demographic changes in workforce composition and customers combined with multicultural workplace congregations have made Ind...
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Jacques B. Strydom,Ronel Erwee
AbstractAn interview schedule was used to test the applicability of the Cox model of diversity management in a sample of South African companies. Even though this sample acknowledges the potential advantages of diversity, they do not yet experience a pre...
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Jennifer M Sequeira, Kelly P Weeks, Myrtle P Bell, SherRhonda R Gibbs
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Although human resource managers have long realized the impact of diversity on organizational outcomes, most of the research to date has focused on large organizations. Very little consideration has been given to small firms in the United States with few...
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J. M. Kamps,A. S. Engelbrecht
AbstractThe aim of the study was to develop and validate a theoretical model explicating the structural relationships between diversity complexity cognition, emotional intelligence and a positive attitude towards diversity in the South African business c...
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R. Rijamampianina,T. Maxwell
AbstractAlthough much has been said in academia on the importance of multiculturalism, cultural clashes in business and the workplace continue to be an issue of growing concern as the world moves toward an interlinked, global economy. Now more than ever,...
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R. Rijamampianina,T. Maxwell
AbstractAlthough much has been said in academia on the importance of multiculturalism, cultural clashes in business and the workplace continue to be an issue of growing concern as the world moves toward an interlinked, global economy. Now more than ever,...
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Carole Ann Creque, Doreen J. Gooden
This paper proposes that cultural intelligence and global business competencies are vital to organizations as they seek to achieve success in the global marketplace. Adler (2001) suggests that because of the diversity of the global workforce cultural bar...
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Solomon Akpoviroro Kowo, Ismaila Bolarinwa Kadiri, Abu Zekeri
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Subject matter: Diversity has, nonetheless, been a powerful influence on terminology and practice worldwide. Employee diversity encompasses a wide variety of differences, including age, gender, culture, work experience, parental status, educational backg...
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Yukiko Nakagawa
This research is unique because it presents empirical evidence testing whether increasing gender diversity is associated with improved firm performance for Japanese listed companies, which have different cultural backgrounds from Western companies, after...
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Petra Aigner
Diversity Management (DM) has often been criticised as a double-edged sword, leading to competitive advantage such as acceleration of productivity or the retention of highly talented staff (Basset-Jones, 2005; Hanappi-Egger et al., 2007) but, in turn, fo...
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Amy McMillan-Capehart, Tara Burnthorne Lopez
Organizational diversity and person-organization fit have been found to have both positive and negative effects on organizational outcomes. These negative consequences of diversity are often attributed to a lack of fit between traditional employees and e...
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