Pragmatic worldview and mixed methods in studying workplace diversity management

workforce of today is marked by a general realization that the traditional work arrangements have known are inadequate to address the challenges that business organizations encounter today. This essay explored a pragmatic worldview and how it links to a study on the effects of firm features and contextual characteristics on workplace diversity. Additionally, this essay aligns this worldview with a mixed research method and describes how the proposed study uses the research method. The essay concluded that because the study of multicultural workplaces is aligned with a pragmatic worldview, a mixed method approach was best suited to ground the research.

How does the pragmatic worldview link to a study on the effects of firm features and contextual characteristics on workplace diversity?

Hypothesis: The pragmatic worldview links to the study on the effects of firm features and contextual characteristics on workplace diversity by demonstrating how diversity can lead to a company's success.

2. How does workplace diversity interact with a corporation's characteristics in order to contribute to success?

Hypothesis: Workplace diversity can create a wider target audience, because as the company becomes more diverse, it can reach out to more individuals.

3. What are the drawbacks of including diversity in a corporation and why?

Hypothesis: The drawbacks of including diversity in a corporation could be a lack of misunderstanding and cultural communication. Companies will need to be prepared for this possibility.

Problem Statement

Globalization has intensified business diversity; in 1990, the number of multinational firms was 6,000; today, it's well over 60,000 (Seyed-Mahmoud, 2004). In the years to come a diverse workforce will be a key to operating even for non- multinational organizations (Seyed-Mahmoud, 2004). As talent mobility strategies become highly strategic, with more companies expanding abroad, "managers can improve performance by thinking differently about the problems that they face." (McGahan, A.M., 2007). The rate at which multinational firms will increase is expected to be around 300% for the next 10 years (Seyed-Mahmoud, 2004). The general problem is to include diversity management in organizational strategies, unleashing and channeling the workers' diverse creativity on the new challenges posed by globalization rather than perceiving diversity as a burden. However, companies will need to be prepared for the possible negatives of diversity, like miscommunication. The specific focus of this study uses a qualitative approach to explore leadership theories, methods and practices that are needed to lead multicultural workplaces while analyzing how companies that include workplace diversity in their corporate strategy are able to achieve sustainable growth.

Conclusion

Cultural submergence can no longer be tolerated. Rather, managers must know how their organizations function and how to facilitate cultural knowledge and engagement in their organizations to succeed in the present globalized world business environment. In order to ground the research, a thorough review of several theories as well as a mixed methods study will be analyzed to ensure that a theory that works is identified in order to help make decisions about the problem. According to Bryman (2007), choosing the method carefully is a key to a successful research. There are a number of theories that work and can be linked to the need for managing and how to manage multicultural workplaces along with utilizing a mixed method approach to find out what managers believe or think.