Experts have a clear understanding of the potential advantages that diversity brings to teams and organizations.
APM acknowledges that diverse teams generally outperform homogeneous ones. This correlation is increasingly evident in the performance and financial outcomes of organizations.
Does this align with your personal experience?
In a previous section, you explored exceptional and high-performing teams. Based on your own observations, do you see a connection between diversity and performance? Do teams with greater diversity produce superior work? Additionally, what challenges arise when working in highly diverse teams?
We are genuinely interested in hearing about your experiences and thoughts regarding these questions in the discussion section.
the higher the rate of diversity, the wider the scope of information, knowledge, and experience. this will yield high performance and low level of errors thus higher profitability.
this assumption is based on high level of cohesion 0f the team players
Diversity makes room for efficiency
Diversity is crucial, as it gives room for different views, ideas and belief, which can be an advantage to the success of a project. However, care should be taken so it doesn’t bring disagreements and conflict between team members because of individual differences.
diversity has a connection with performance. Each team member brings a distinct flavor to the output. You see people who are highly self motivated, another can think ideas through an predict possible outcomes of any part etc. A good PM will harness the various skill and personalities to deliver a unique and excellent product.
Ashiru Moruf
Cohort 7 Team 2
The concept of diversity is imperative. Diverse teams tend to perform better in an emergency project especially for complex situations. Connection with performance is highly rated in compare to a homogeneous team who thrive in predictable or simple situations environments.
Each team members are highly skilled and the higher the rate of diversity, the wider the scope of information, knowledge, and experience. And the more performance and low level of errors thus higher probability to achieve greater result.
Diversity is crucial addendum in proper project management practice, it allows for adequate and efficient perspective and approach when implementing project.
Diverse team truly do better work even maybe as a results of the situation being more focused on achieving the goal of the assembly with low time available for modalities.
As discussed the last video in complex environments diverse teams tend to perform better in an emergency project especially for complex and chalk situation in comparison to a homogeneous team who express greatly in predictable or simple situations environments helped by familiarity of style, behavioral patterns, response mode, ways and thinking.
Diverse team truly do better work even maybe as a results of the situation being more focused on achieving the goal of the assembly with low time available for modalities.
With challenges based on VUCA: volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous. The teams are formed quickly and assign roles quickly, based on the people available. Which in turn seem like a disorderly and risky way to build an emergency response team.
Diversity is vital in proper project management practice, it allows for a 360 degree perspective and approach when implementing a project
Yes! There is a relationship between diversity and performance.
– Diversity leads to better performance, it increases productivity. It increases work/ job satisfaction. Leads to a low work turnover intention and high organizational commitment.
-More diverse teams do better work and deliver better results and make better decision. It aids employee retention, increases profitability and business growth. It leads to greater innovative and solves problem faster.
– The challenges in diverse teams includes;-
Discrimination, misunderstanding due to differences in culture and ability to acknowledge , understand and integrate perspective.
Diversity is a great advantage to any team due to the fact that team members complement one another. With this, team with diversity always do well because of the ability to leverage on all available resources. However, diversity, when not properly harnessed can breed disaster
Diverse Teams if diversity is well harnessed and directed towards project goals will provide better performance depending on the ability of the project manager to manage diversity
Diversity team performs better due to their experiences, and they bring up opinions and ideas based on their experiences.
The challenges of diversity teams are :
Too many ideas that may cause slow in decision making.
Not communicating well because they all want their ideas to be counted.
I believe diversity has a connection with performance. Each team member brings a distinct flavor to the output. You see people who are highly self motivated, another can think ideas through an predict possible outcomes of any part etc. A good PM will harness the various skill and personalities to deliver a unique and excellent product.
Teams with greater diversity doesn’t always bring the best outcome. It all depends on the PM’s ability to manage the team.
Basically, diversity brings divergent view, culture and beliefs that people hold dear.
Diversity in a team could be a source of strength and knowledge hence we would have different skills and background.
For this to be advantageous, there must be understanding between the team members, and the PM should create environment for such behavior.
Diversity when properly harnessed is profitable.
In my experience, there a relationship between diversity and performance. When diverse teams work, it creates room for more creativity and thinking out of the box. more diverse teams do better work. The challenges of working in highly diverse teams can be too many varying ideas. More time will be taking to help the different teams understand a different idea that was suggested.
My experience with diversity and performance is that it could yield some growth and results based on the level of handling both parties it could also destroy growth is not properly handle..that what a leader of a team to know that it all boil down to communication as essential and important to treat diversity as a personal case when handling project.
I can not agree less, diversity is a great asset to an organization when adequately managed by the team lead