Significance of knowing and managing the diversity in an increasingly globalized world

1. Diversity in Organizations
Dr. L. Mothilal, M.B.A., FDP-IIMA, PGCCA, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor,
Department of Management Studies
Pondicherry Central University, India
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2. DIVERSITY IN ORGANIZATIONS

3. LEVELS OF DIVERSITY
Surface Level Diversity Deep-Level Diversity
Age Values
Race Personality
Gender Work Preferences
Ethnicity
Religion
Disability Status

4. OTHER BIOGRAPHICAL CHARACTERISTICS
Tenure – Seniority & Job
Productivity
Religion
Sexual Orientation and Gender
Identity (3rd Gender)

5. ABILITY
Ability is an individual’s
current capacity to perform the
various tasks in a job.
Overall abilities are essentially
made up of two sets of factors:
Intellectual & Physical.

6. DIMENSIONS OF INTELLECTUAL ABILITY
Dimension Description Job Example
Number Aptitude
It is an ability to do speedy and accurate
arithmetic.
Accountant
Verbal
Comprehension
It is the ability to understand what is read and
heard and the relationship of words to each
other.
Senior Managers
Perceptual
Speed
It is dying ability to identify visual
similarities and differences quickly and
accurately.
Investigators
Inductive
Reasoning
It is the ability to identify a logical sequence
in a problem and then solve the problem.
Market
Researcher
Deductive
Reasoning
It is the ability to see logic and assesses the
implication of art argument.
Supervisors
Spatial
Visualization
It is the ability to imagine how an object
would look like its position in space was
changed.
Interior
Decorator
Memory
It is the ability to retain and recall past
experience.
Sales person -
Remembering
Customer’s
Name

7. Physical
Ability
Dynamic
Strength
Trunk
Strength
Static
Strength
Explosive
Strength
Extent
Flexibility
Dynamic
Flexibility
Body
Coordinat
ion
Balance
Stamina

8. STRENGTH FACTOR
• Exert force
against
external
object
•Exert and
expend all force
in one or series
of explosive
acts.
• Exerting
muscular
strength
rapidly &
repeatedly
using the
trunk
muscle
• Exerting
muscular
strength
rapidly and
repeatedly
Dynamic Trunk
StaticExplosive

9. FLEXIBILITY FACTOR
Extent
• Ability to bend trunk and back
muscle
Dynamic
• Ability to bend trunk and back
muscle rapidly and repeatedly

10. OTHER FACTORS
Body
Coordination • Mind & Body Control
Balance
• Ability to maintain
equilibrium against
external force
Stamina
• Ability to exert force
persistently

11. MANAGING DIVERSITY
DIVERSE
EMPLOYEES
ATTRACT
SELECT
DEVELOP
RETAIN