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From Creative To Competitive
Human Capital
|July 2017
If employees are exposed to a variety of perspectives and ideas, it fosters a readiness to accept and adapt to a new culture, a new behaviour, a new thought process, a new country, a new style of working, and, a different approach.
Diversity at an organizational level would mean bringing in a variety of perspectives, experiences, ideas and backgrounds, that will foster innovation. Such new thinking and innovation is the key to manage a growing competitiveness across industrial sectors. Notwithstanding the fact that such innovative thinking and behaviour help employees become world-ready.
Today, millennials are increasingly seeking to work in businesses that prepare them for a global assignment. I believe that a truly global behaviour comes with working in an environment that celebrates diversity. If employees are exposed to a variety of perspectives and ideas, it fosters a readiness to accept and adapt to a new culture, a new behaviour, a new thought process, a new country, a new style of working, and, a different approach. A workplace can be diverse when its people come from different backgrounds and cultures, including a fair mix of education, ethnicity, age, gender, race, religious beliefs, and, many such parameters. That such work environments enable employees to find creative solutions to evolving business challenges is an added advantage to keep the organization competitive and future-ready!
This story is from the July 2017 edition of Human Capital.
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