Diversity Management in Sustainable Human Resources Management

Abstract

Today, globalization is becoming more and more widespread and important in almost all areas in the social, economic and political spheres. In most cases, it is globalization that brings diversity to everyday life. This diversity is gradually penetrating into other spheres, which is why business managers are increasingly confronted with a diverse workforce; employees of different origins, race, gender, or age. The policy of diversity management contributes to the strengthening of social responsibility of the company and is also an element of the competitiveness. Our research was aimed to enhance understanding of diversity management importance in nowadays organization, to explain various aspects of management diversity, it´s legislative framework. Another objective was to examine perception of the issue of management diversity by the middle managers of various organisations in Slovakia. To achieve these goals we used methods of literature review, desk review; primary data were collected by questionnaire and interview. Finding show the relation between demographic development and diversity management in companies; in examining the perception of the issue of diversity management, we found the understanding of diversity management as synonymous with anti-discrimination measures. Our research led also to recommendations for implementation of management diversity for human resource management sustainability.

Sustainable Human Resource Management: A Conceptual Framework

“…Sustainable human resource management (SHRM) is described as a system of established or emerging HR policies and practices that enables the organization to achieve the financial, social, and environmental objectives while also duplicating the HR foundation across time. For organizations that lead to innovation and success (20,21) sustainable HR is extremely important.…”

Employer Branding in the Context of the Company’s Sustainable Development Strategy from the Perspective of Gender Diversity of Generation Z

“…Awareness of the diversity of behaviours and values in various groups of employees determines the need to use the concept of diversity management, which is currently under the consideration of both the academic literature [12,[53][54][55][56] and business practice [57][58][59][60][61][62]. Many authors emphasise the significance of the key dimension of diversity, i.e., the age of the hired employees [63] and the necessity for employers to adjust their attitudes towards different generations [49,64,65].…”

Impact of Diversity Management on Employees’ Engagement: The Role of Organizational Trust and Job Insecurity

“…It was also highly mentioned that diversity management is increasingly important in ensuring the human resource management sustainability, where [6] confirmed that organizations who guard their diversified workforce by planning a long term diversity management strategies and include them in the companies' human resource management activities such as recruitment, payroll, mobility, promotion etc., who ensure structured employees' evaluations and who have the right managers with international and multicultural experiences, flexible and global mindsets, and strong diversified technical and strategical skills are those who succeed in introducing supportive programs for sustainability and a skilled, powerful, and solid work environment. In addition, they reported that diversity implementation with its full requirements incarnated into the firms' everyday life can ensure the companies' sustainable prosperity in a very globalized world.…”