Diversity

Diversity is described as the state of having people who are of different races or who have different cultures in a group, but diversity can be more than just race or ethnic background. When we are talking about workplace diversity, we are referring to the variety of differences between people in an organization. Diversity encompasses race, gender, ethnic group, age, personality, cognitive style, tenure, organizational function, education and background. The effects of diversity can impact how management should be enforced and learning to work with different personalities and cultures can either make or break a company as well as management.
Walmart opened its doors in 1962 and diversity has been at the core of their culture from the very beginning. According to Sam Walton, the owner of Walmart, “The only way to help their customers and associates is to know and understand them, but in order to do that, you must understand and respect their differences”. Diversity affects planning by making it more difficult in the planning process as you must look at the diverse population of employees that you are in charge of and grasp understanding about what they may and may not be comfortable doing based on their beliefs and moral values.
Diversity can also be a challenge in organizing as you have to assemble and coordinate your employees that are of all different ethnicities and you may have to explain things a bit differently to some of them, so that they can understand why you are doing the things that you are doing. I also think that diversity plays a role in how the job is completed and how determined each person is to complete that goal and this also has to do with the way people are raised and their beliefs as well as their values.
In several different ways, leading, is in itself, an exercise in diversity management. You must lead several different cultures and ethnicities of people and help them to understand why things are being done the way they are and how they are supposed to be doing these specific tasks. An example of this at Walmart would the management dressing in the proper attire and leading the rest if their employees to wear the proper attire to work as well. Control can be affected by diversity because there may be some cultures that do not necessarily agree with other cultures or genders being in charge and that may create some distention in the workplace as well as create some problems with authority and getting things done on time.

References
Corporate.walmart.com/global-responsibility/diversity-inclusion

References: Corporate.walmart.com/global-responsibility/diversity-inclusion