Assignment task: A diverse workforce simply means a company has built a workforce that includes many different types of people. It can mean people of different ethnicities, sexual orientations, socioeconomic status, ages, genders, religions and other ways in which humans innately differ. It can also simply mean people who have different personalities and will approach situations differently, such as both introverts and extroverts. Ideally, an organization will build a workforce consisting of all of the above, as well as match its strategy for having diverse employees with its overall organizational goals and values.
Q1. Assess how favourable are Malaysian firms on diverse workforce hiring?
Q2. Evaluate the five main things you would do to recruit and retain a more diverse workforce?
Note:
1. Students MUST employ at least TWO (2) theoretical models/frameworks in order to provide structure to your analysis.
2. Students are required to use an example of a real-world scenario in their answer.