The Importance Of Diversity In Leadership

Developing Leadership Diversity People have different traits and characteristics that differentiate them from others. According to Richard Daft, the differences among people in terms of age, ethnicity, age, gender, or other dimensions is known as diversity (Daft, 2015). Daft explains the concept of leadership diversity in the Chapter 11 of his book “The Leadership Experience”. Daft estates that today leaders have to understand how complex and important are the diversity issues and how to work to resolve them. The chapter’s topic is Developing Leadership Diversity. It is not only important for an organization to have workforce diversity, but it is also important to have diverse leaders. The chapters includes information that explains how important diversity and multiculturalism are in today’s society. In the past, diversity was something that did not exist in most organizations. However, organizations and companies now understand how important it is for all individual to have the same opportunities regardless of their age, race or gender.

Changing Attitudes toward Diversity According to Daft, attitudes toward diversity are expanding because leaders have to respond to the significant changes in our society including demographic changes,
Individuals in leadership positions need to be prepared to lead and work with people who are not like them. Diversity is still an issue in leadership, but the researches and studies show that companies are working on it. Organizations from different fields and concentrations have adopted new policies and initiatives to increase the workforce and leadership diversity. It has been proven that diverse organizations are successful and recent researches have shown that they can even be more successful than traditional organizations. Diversity and equality is something that has not been achieved in our society, but a lot of people are working together towards