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Communication barriers in Workplace

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Communication is one of the major factors that directly affects an organization success (Butchibabu, SparanoHuiban, Sonenberg & Shah, 2016). But there is always a communication barrier in every workplace regardless of what sector it is. This barrier may be due to the lack of language knowledge of the employees, personal conflicts, reputation issues and so on. Workplace diversity can be double-sided and also it can create challenges for the organization (D'Netto et al., 2014). The most One of the often facts that is observed in diverse workforce is the miscommunication or no communication (D'Netto et al., 2014; Lauring & Selmer, 2012; Podsiadlowski, Gröschke, Kogler, Springer & van Der Zee, 2013). If two individual employees have misunderstanding due to cultural difference, personal difference miscommunication will occur, that will lead them even to get disappoint for the other person. Current organizations has become more culturally diverse, that has created commu...

Generational and Age Diversity in Workplace

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Workplace is identified as a group of individuals who are from various backgrounds and various age levels. Generational differences in the workplace as a research and intervention topic have recently grown significantly in popularity (Joshi et al., 2011; Lyons et al., 2015; Campbell et al., 2017). Age diversity is a fact that has affected on most of the organizations which has also resulted employee conflicts. Generational gap is inter-related with the skill level of the employee, where aged employees are reluctant to learn from the young. Main aim of any organization is to maintain its performance. In order to achieve this target, a skilled staff is a critical and an essential factor (Liang, 2012). So, organizations need to adjust human resource management (HRM) policies to inspire the workforce (Truss et al., 2013). The employees of various Generations as X, Y, and Z have diverse set of skills and perceptions regarding their jobs, which results organizations face multidimensional cha...

Gender Discrimination in Workplace

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The workplace has sometimes been referred to as an inhospitable place for women due to the multiple forms of gender inequalities present (e.g., Abrams, 1991). The discrimination of gender arouses through and at several HR (human resource) policies, where women doesn’t obtain the same resources as men get. Most of the HR follows has refused to provide women training, hiring, paying, promotion, etc with the thought of dropping them out of the organization. The gender discrimination comes to play vitally when the marital status of a women changes from single to married as most of the people are having rumored that married women have to make commitments to family and not work around for organization which creates the gender inequality vibrant. Figure 1 (8 charts that show the impact of race and gender on technology careers, 2022) A study conducted by the World economic forum has concluded the results shown in Figure 1 where both men and women are inquired about the gender discriminat...