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Diversity in the Workplaces and Importance of the Diversity

Yusuf Emre Basar

Yorkville University

BUSI 1073: Business Writing and Communication

Mostafa Nazari Montazer

January 14 2025
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Diversity in the Workplaces and Importance of the Diversity

According to (Servaes et al 2022) The diversity can be described asThe Oxford English

Dictionary, “diversity” is defined as “the practice or quality of including or involving people

from a range of different social and ethnic backgrounds and of different genders, sexual

orientations, etc.” Because technology has helped to make the world more accessible, and with

travel and immigration (Mostly when there is no barriers to that such as the covid pandemic),

people are no longer working or living in the same [Link] with different people and

working with them become a common theme for most people. WIth these differences and

diversities we embrace many more methods to solving problems that we face today

According to my research, the diversity of the workplace mostly benefits the employees.

Because there are several factors that contribute to this, first of all diversity of the people with

different backgrounds. According to Quinetta M. (2019) Canada, Europe and Usa ,especially

after the invention of cheap transportation, are the top 3 countries that get immigrants. So these

countries have a larger diversity compared to other parts of the world. The people in these

countries are working with people from different parts of the world which means different

cultures and geography. Both of these things seriously affect how a person sees life and what

they are expecting from it. These would bring a lot of things to the workplace. Most important

factor is the difference in culture. What this brings is that people from different parts of the world
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have different perspectives and beliefs. Which is a very good thing for the workplace where we

have diversity means that we have more than one idea. This means that people from different

parts of the world have different perspectives on the same problem due to their beliefs and

culture. This provides us with many more solutions to the same problem and many more

perspectives to the problem.

One of the other benefits to employees is that when we get to recognize people from different

parts of the globe we get to socialize more. This contributes to many things. Just like I mentioned

before it gives us different perspectives but there is another thing. We get to learn different

things from different people and their culture. This grants us many beneficial skills such as

complex thinking and thinking outside of the box. Kim (2006)

To achieve true diversity, organizations must make strategies to attract, involve, and retain

diverse people. Creating a diverse team initially starts with an inclusive recruitment process.

Companies need to increase the number of jobs they assign to different locations and

departments, which requires different levels of [Link] a more careful approach to the HR

teams, select individuals who got the jobs can assign by their skills to needed parts of the

company . In addition to that, partnerships with groups serving non or underrepresented

communities can create opportunities for more people to participate in the recruitment process.

Those help to ensure that people selected equally and fairly by their skills

Fair approaches in the workplace makes it equality at all levels of employment . Companies

should establish clear policies that guarantee equality of opportunity in terms of recruitment,
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promotion and compensation. Providing training and leadership development programs designed

to support non- or underrepresented groups can promote gender equality and growth in the

workplace. By preventing inequality inside the workplace , Workplace creates an environment

where everyone has the opportunity become successful

A diverse organization goes beyond hiring to create an inclusive work culture where everyone is

heard, valued and listened to. So that employees at different levels can connect with each other,

share information, and support each other and create better work. Organizing cultural events for

everyone to participate in, celebrating certain holidays of different cultures, and creating

membership counseling strategies can help improve a sense of belonging to the company and to

the workplace they are working on . Which is a very important thing if we want diversity in our

workplace. Quinetta M. (2019)

Ensuring and maintaining diversity requires constant monitoring and adaptation. Organizations

should regularly analyze various criterias, such as the number of the sales and regularly make

employee satisfaction surveys, to identify areas that needed to be improved and worked [Link]

in that process transparency about the results is the key. A approach which is based on datas

allows companies to meet customer needs Fionnuala (2003). Becoming a diverse workplace has

its own challenges that you need to face which some companies are doing better than others such

as Walmart would be a great example for that because in 2021 Walmart scored %100 in the 2021

Disability Equality Index and Corporate Equality Index for the sixth consecutive year. In 2022,

Walmart ranked #26 in DiversityInc’s top 50 US companies’ diversity list.

References

Darby, Fionnuala (2003) "Diversity in the Workplace," The ITB Journal: Vol. 4: Iss. 2, Article 3.
doi:10.21427/D7C167

Roberson, Quinetta M. (2019) Diversity in the Workplace: A Review, Synthesis, and Future
Research Agenda Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, N
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Tran, H., Platt, S., Gao, R., & Go, J. (2024). Workplace Inclusion in Academia: The Relationship
between Diversity Climate and Engineering Faculty Turnover Intentions. AERA Open, 10.
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Kim, B. Y. (2006). Managing Workforce Diversity: Developing a Learning Organization.

Servaes, S., Choudhury, P., & Parikh, A. K. (2022). What is diversity?. Pediatric radiology,
52(9), 1708–1710. [Link]
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Appendix A

Business Letter

Yusuf Emre Basar

315 Agnes Street

New Westminster BC V3L 1E8

15 January 2025

Joseph Metters

CEO

Epic Games Canada LLC

Vancouver 4374 Robson St V6B 3K9

Dear Mr Metters

Thank you for asking my opinion on how to get a more diverse company. My approach to this

topic is that we need to change our HR department and make them approach the applicants

differently. We need to choose them fairly and make them get the jobs at their skill level and

kind. One of the other topic that we can hire people from other countries while creating remote

jobs for them. This would be beneficial to our future plan of growing our company in many more

markets. Other people from other countries would also creates us much larger customer base to

sell our products Thank you

Sincerely,

Yusuf Emre Basar