Diversity Dealing with diversity and individual differences has to be included among the most important issues challenging all managers in the quest for high performance and organizational competitiveness. (University of Phoenix, 2003). Workforce diversity is the presence of differences based on gender, race and ethnicity, age, able-bodiedness and sexual orientation. (University of Phoenix, 2003). To be successful, organizations should recognize and embrace the gender, age, religion and ethnicity diversity in their employees as well as the demographic …showed first 75 words of 1598 total…

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