Theme 2: Managing Diverse Teams Challenges

Please express your view to the following statement:

Companies that incorporate employees’ diverse perspectives to rethink primary tasks and redefine markets, products, strategies, missions, business practices, and even cultures are tapping diversity’s true benefits by making
more creative and better decisions (Jackson, 1992; Thomas and Ely, 1996)”
To help you put the right emphasis on this theme you should consider 2 parts:

Part 1: “Companies which incorporate employees’ diverse perspectives to rethink primary tasks and redefine markets, products, strategies, missions, business practices, and even cultures are tapping diversity’s true benefits”, and

Part 2: “benefits by making more creative and better decisions” (Jackson, 1992; Thomas and Ely, 1996).

Having identified the 2 parts to this theme you can now start to structure your response: We are looking for you to introduce the theme, reference the theory, use real examples, and conclude using your own words and views, backed up
by the theory.

Part 1: Draw on research, theories, and team-building models to help you explore the advantages and the challenges diverse teams bring to organizations.

Part 2: Is the ability to manage a diverse team the most important skill for your chosen industry? You must present your argument here and justify your response by making reference to leaders and organizations in your chosen industry.

∙ How might a manager use the knowledge of diversity to produce better results? Present your discussion drawing on your research and industry leaders.

what are your conclusions from this debate?

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