WORKPLACE DIVERSITY MANAGEMENT AND ORGANISATIONAL PERFORMANCE

Okilo Aduba

Principal Lecturer, School of Commerce and Management, Bayelsa State Polytechnic

Aleibiri, Bayelsa State, Nigeria.

Fredojonesaduba@gmail.com

Kakatei Juanita Perelayefa

Lecturer II, School of Commerce and Management, Bayelsa State Polytechnic Aleibiri, Bayelsa State, Nigeria.

Tubonimi Ann Okuboere

Lecturer I, School of Commerce and Management, Bayelsa State Polytechnic Aleibiri,

Bayelsa State, Nigeria.

Bariweni Timipre

Lecturer II, School of Commerce and Management, Bayelsa State Polytechnic Aleibiri, Bayelsa State, Nigeria.

                                                        ABSTRACT

Environmental volatility, technological innovations and globalisation are causing serious disruption to organisations. If organisations must continue to survive in this ever changing business environment and achieve corporate goals and objectives, they need to develop businesses and cooperation across national boundaries. Managing the growing trend of multi-ethnic diverse workforce is a key factor in attaining overall corporate success. Organisations that effectively and efficiently manage diversity will have a competitive advantage in the market place because they can create higher morale and better relationship in the workplace. Business organisations must therefore value, appreciate and accommodate the multicultural workforce of their employees including members of varying ethnic, racial, religious and gender backgrounds. Therefore, the main aim of this study is to identify the relationship between workplace diversity management and organisational performance. The study is a review of extant literature on the relationship between workplace diversity management and organisational performance. The result of the study shows that workplace diversity is strongly related to organisational performance. Therefore, workplace diversity is an important and inevitable factor in organisations due to the rapid economic growth and advancement, which requires that firms become more diversified, particularly in multiracial and multi-ethnic countries. The study recommends that business organisations should continue to adopt workplace diversity as a veritable tool for enhancing performance. Organisations should embrace workplace diversity to achieve market performance, innovative performance, and stakeholder performance.

Keywords: Workplace Diversity, Organisational Performance, Market Performance, Innovative Performance, Stakeholder Performance.