Reasons of Workforce Diversity

As the society develops, workforce diversity becomes a key element of successful business and the big challenge faced by managers is to coordinate the diverse workforce and make them achieve the most effectiveness. The diversity of workforce and the reasons of its formation are as follows: 1. The consistent alteration of population structure. More and more immigrants enter the labor pool and act as a huge source of workforce. As the old-age society comes, the life of old people become longer due to medical system so old people are also an important part of workforce. 2. Diversity of value. In Canada, people try to observe and treat the life in their own ways. As a minority or group, the value become diverse and it makes people back to society and find their own roles of society, rights, and obligations and discover the complexity of life. 3. Diversity of work skills of employees. In order to keep the elasticity to deal with high degree of uncertainty, many organizations divide workforce into two parts: core staff and assistant staff. Core staff is the core and soul of the organization. 80% of the organization’s value and profit are created by the 20% core staff. Assistant staff is uncertain to organizations with lower loyalty. Normally the organizations employ them in the form of part-time or contract worker to reduce the cost of management. 4. Globalization of workforce. The trend of workforce diversity becomes more obvious than before in the process of economic globalization. People in different country or region will get an employment from the economic globalization.