African Journal of
Business Management

  • Abbreviation: Afr. J. Bus. Manage.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 1993-8233
  • DOI: 10.5897/AJBM
  • Start Year: 2007
  • Published Articles: 4195

Review

Critical review of literature on workforce diversity

Ongori Henry and Agolla J. Evans
University of Botswana, Botswana
Email: [email protected]

  •  Accepted: 27 June 2007
  •  Published: 31 July 2007

Abstract

 

Workforce diversity is a primary concern for most of the businesses. Today’s organisations need to recognise and manage workforce diversity effectively. Many articles have been written on this topic but there is no specific definition of workforce diversity. The main purpose of this article is to review the literature of workforce diversity. What is workforce diversity? What are the benefits of workforce diversity in organisations, what management can do to enhance work force diversity in organisations? What are the disadvantages of workforce diversity? .This questions would be main purpose of this article.

 

Key words: Workforce diversity, disability, old age, human resource management, equal opportunity