PROSPECTS AND CHALLENGES OF WORKFORCE DIVERSITY: THE CASE OF MEDICINES SANS FRONTIERS-HOLLAND ETHIOPIA MISSION

Abstract

The subject matter of this paper is Workforce Diversity. The study were conducted to explore how organization manage workforce diversity and its consequences to the organization existence as well as examine how organizations deal with challenges that comes with employees from diverse cultural backgrounds. The research therefore answers the question has Workforce Diversity contributed to organizational success.Because diversity covers a wide range of human attributes and qualities, the research is limited to the required tools for managing workforce diversity and its prospects/advantages and disadvantages of managing a diverse workforce.To gather the required data for this thesis, the writer has mostly used the current material that contains Human Resource Management studies. Qualitative research method supported byQuantitative research has been used to gather and analyze the data on the organization’s Workforce Diversity using the social since tool (SPSS). To answer the research question as well as obtain practical and relevant information on the organization, the researcherused selfadministered questionnaire and conducted an interview on this organization. The result of this study shows that workforce diversity plays an effective role in this organization. However, inadequate mentoring and guidance could cause aorganization low productivity. For this reason there must be regular improvement in ways to effectively manage a diverse workforce as the world keeps advancing. In the conclusion, the findings of the thesis were indicated, which states that workforce diversity has contributed to more productivity but some factors such as lack of knowledge among the managers on the area could hinder its successful implementation and hence organizational success.