The focus of this paper is to review the literature of workforce diversity and offer explanation for why diversity efforts are not fulfilling their promise in most organisations today and present a fresh paradigm through which organisations can understand and leverage the diversity that exists in their domain for the organisations benefit. This review paper elucidates the questions of what is workforce diversity. Why should an organisation concern itself with diversity? What is workforce diversity management? What perspectives have guided diversity till date? How should organisations see workforce diversity? What are the benefits of workforce diversity in organisations? What can management do to enhance work force diversity in organisations? What are the disadvantages of workforce diversity? These questions and many more would be the main purpose of this paper!

The focus of this paper is to review the literature of workforce diversity and offer explanation for why diversity efforts are not fulfilling their promise in most organisations today and present a fresh paradigm through which organisations can understand and leverage the diversity that exists in th...