With Diversity Comes Strength

Diversity Defined

Diversity comes in many forms and flavors: gender, age, time perceptions, personality, skills, culture, race, sexual orientation, language and nationality. With diversity comes strength.

Benefits of Diversity

There are many benefits from diversity in the workforce including:

• Cost Savings
• Resource Acquisition and Utilization
• Keeping and Gaining Market Share
• Better Decision Making
• Greater Innovation and Creativity

Baby Boomers (1946-1964) will be well into retirement by 2030, if not before depending on the current recession. What this means is a shortage of skilled human resources in the coming years. This may seem unlikely at the present time, with such a strong recessionary environment, but is indeed an eventuality. A diverse company will weather this shortage much better than a company that is not.

An Example of Diversity

One example of an extremely diverse company I worked for is Levi Strauss; they were extremely open on all levels. Their culture was one of diversity, equality, and working together as a team. This is their strength.