Reasons why Diversity Management is important: Includes Hofstede model

Essay from the year 2020 in the subject Leadership and Human Resource Management - Miscellaneous, grade: 1,7, AKAD University of Applied Sciences Stuttgart, language: English, abstract: The overall objective of this essay is to explain the importance of human diversity in companies and organisations. It contains reasons why this topic can no longer be ignored for successful corporate management of enterprises in today's world. Furthermore, as a kind of sub-target cultural differences will be considered and the six dimensions model of national culture from organisational anthropologist Geert Hofstede will be presented.

The importance of the human diversity in companies and organizations in Europe has been growing up continuously since the 1990s. The very fast technological progress and the lowering of international political barriers are fuelling the advance of globalisation and making cross-border communications and trading worldwide easier. Therefore, it is not a surprise that cross-cultural expertise and language skills are ever more frequently requested in companies and the advantages of human diversity are focused to the economic research since the 1990s.

Today the issue of the human diversity does not longer examine the benefits of using people with cross-cultural or linguistic skills only. Meanwhile these parameters have been supplemented and includes those of demographic characteristics, personal know-how, values, beliefs, character, social status and natives generally. In addition, nowadays the economics research does not investigate the obvious advantages in companies and organizations only and is also avoidable disadvantages through the use of heterogeneous groups and team designs.