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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