SYNAPSE 2014
SYNAPSE -- 2014
and praise. A company with a mixed pool of multi
generation work force has an advantage of understanding the market needs arising out of different age
segments of customers.
Employees from
different geographic
segments of India have
typical work place
specificities
Individuals belonging to a particular community
are assumed to be carrying better skill sets for a
given job. If such stereotypes are not broken, it can
lead to imbalance in the workforce.
In India, racial diversity is ensured by the government in the form of different quotas and reservations. This move started during the first planning
commission in India is to maintain equality among
all and to bring the socially backward cast alongside
the rest.
Language diversity can pose a major barrier in
communication in the work place. Effectiveness
communication gets hampered when people speak
in different languages or people talk in official
language of communication with a strong vernacular accent, which jeopardizes information transfer.
Ethnic/ inter religion animosity could be a severe
const