What Is the Role of Diversity in Human Resource Management?

Diversity management refers to a management practice that aims to improve the efficiency with which different types of human resources are used by an enterprise.

Diversity Management

This entry is taken from the book "9D Model of Equity Incentives" by Dr. Hu Bayi.

According to Hayek's dual view of social order, the enterprise first manifests as an artificial order. In order to overcome the shortcomings of personal cognition, it assigns specific tasks, goals or functions to specific individuals in the organization in an orderly manner, thereby Can control the actions of members of the organization, authority, reward, recognition and coordination form the organizational characteristics of the enterprise. Secondly, the participant of economic activities is embedded in the society, and is essentially a social actor. Its special feature is that he is an activist in the economic field, and his actions must be socialized and subject to human action. Order-bound. In this way, we can think of an enterprise as a spontaneous order formed by the interaction of participants in the enterprise under the artificial order. It is the unity of the spontaneous order and the artificial order. Due to people's limited rationality and the complexity of the external environment, it is difficult to eliminate the uncertainty in the management process of the enterprise. In this case, diversity management is necessary.

In short, the gender, ethnicity, religion, age, culture, professional fields, and many other personal characteristics of corporate personnel are becoming more diverse. A fixed mode of management is no longer appropriate, so diversity management has emerged.

1. Assess the current state of the organization

First, the organization's current human resource management practices need to be analyzed to understand whether the current management system encourages or limits diversity, and determines the direction of future development.

2 Set goals

Set goals and rank important diversity dimensions that your organization will achieve. These goals may include: taking on social and legal responsibilities, attracting and retaining qualified labor, promoting teamwork, creating cooperation between decentralized and different units of work, and so on. The primary goal of the organization will influence the type of diversity management required.

3 Investigate factors affecting achievement of goals

This mainly includes customers, the boundaries of change efforts and resources.

4. Carry out diversity management reform

The implementation of diversity management is different in each organization, so managers must explore in their work to gradually achieve diversity management.

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