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.
In my best of knowledge, the divers team have a team work understand that enable achieve easily because difference idea have been put together.
My experience didn’t go well due to the different background i was working with but with this course of training i have learnt a lot in dealing with people who are not same background with mine. in winning in a team one must communicate in a manner that others can follow this makes team work to be effective.
My experience in project management had actually showed that diversity when properly harnessed is profitable， because it could be a source of knowledge， Skills and innovations to other team members.
For the team goal to beaccomplished in complex situation like this， there must be clear communication， understanding ，cooperation and efficient team work, and the Project Manager should create environment for such behavior.
While diversity can bring lots benefits, working in highly diverse teams can also present challenges. Some of which includes; Communication barriers ( language and cultural differences),Conflicting viewpoints(disagreement, conflict, and difficulties in reaching consensus),Bias and stereotypes. In all, in several occasions, a diverse team seems to be more efficient due to lots of skilled persons coming together.
Diverse team works better than homogeneous team because they can easily coordinate themselves to achieve their goals by setting aside their individual differences like culture, language etc.
To me my own opinion will be that a diverse team will performed more better than a homogenous team. I will share my experience in using the case of my company that i work for. we do have a diverse team and i have noticed that work in the company been done perfectly and on time with the presence of diverse team members who bring in diverse ideas.
A more productive workforce translates to higher profits. Secondly, diverse teams tend to be more creative and better at problem-solving.
More benefit are derived from diversity because it compasses of various gain to the team. This gain can come as previous knowledge from the team members which will benefit them on the new project as more ideas, innovation and better decision making can come up to ease the project.
There a relationship between diversity and performance and more diverse teams do better work because there’s an input from different levels of IQs, training and work experiences, emotional intelligence and even expertise and day to day knowledge hence there’s atleast a person capable of handling any challenges that might come up in the course of the project unlike in an homogeneous setting where everyone thinks and sees things alike with same kind of experiences. The challenges that might now arise in working in highly diverse teams would now include miscommunication and misconception of ideas within team members. There is diversity hence there is an higher chance of conflict of ideas and resolutions to challenges since everyone is an expert in his own field
From the analysis, one can easily say that diverse team are more productive because the manner and time in which they were assembled showed that there is urgent work to be done and that result is the priority…. diverse team will get result quickly because there is no time for familiarity and social talks, everybody is aimed at doing his part to get result as no one wants to be seen as a hindrance to achieving the overall objective of the team…..
On the other hand, Homogeneous teams too also get result but because of familiarity, people tend to not work under pressure but to just take their time to do their work, although the Homogeneous team will be given timeline for complexion but there is this mindset that timeline can also be readjusted to suit their needs….. In essence, there are situations that call for diverse teams and as such u must use them but there are also situations where a diverse team is not needed but a Homogeneous one….. I end by saying that each is best and better used at the time they are needed, it all rest on the sponsor and the project manager.
Diversity in a team can be a good and bad thing…. I think this largely depends on the ability and willingness of the team members to work through their differences and come together to understand each other and work as a team…
Diversity has more advantages to the project than a homogenous team. The former tend to be more proactive in their performance and won’t carry the familiarity into the work space which is good for the work at hand. Whereas the latter may sometimes be detrimental to work performance.