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 own experience possibly so diversity has its place and it tends to build mutual understanding and tolerance for team members. The only challenge I have come across is one feeling he knows more than another or the rest of the team members irrespective of diversity and other factors. (Uwadibie)
Hello everyone, though I don’t have a personal experience of how diversity relates to performance in project management, I think and agree that diversity affects performance in a positive way. This is because team members tend to respect people they are not familiar with because familiarity sometimes, breeds contempt.
When a team is diverse it leads to increased productivity as different challenges that arise in the process of executing the project are dealt with because of the different skills on the team. Diverse teams tend to do a better job because of the specialised skills on the team. However there is need for a proper cohesion and cooperation so that individuals on the team do not feel that because a particular problem does not relate to their skill, hence no need for their contributions.
A diverse team is better because everyone is unique in his or her own way. They will try to bring in their best in what areas they are working on to get better result. They have different skills and experience.
Diversity and Performance:
Diversity breeds room for specialization hence an increased or effective performance.
Diversity gives room for more specialty to handle specific task peculiar to a particular area of work.
The major challenge with diversity is time factor as there may be delay in collating result from individuals of different areas or department.
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ogbebe12
July 31, 2023 at 10:54 pm
Diversity and performance
Has to do with different people from different organization or department, different backgrounds having different policy, code and conduct coming together to execute a particular task in a project
Diverse team do better work because it has do with collective idea from different expertise from different organization or department.
Well the challenges here are
competition among the members
Disagreement will surely arise
Delay might take place due to unfamiliarity among the team members.
Diversity is the uniqueness of every individual, and their culture
Performance irrespective of diversity is key and it is with these two that we bring ideas to the table, sharing ideas and displaying intellectual capacity.
We need to understand our individual culture has a great deal in posing a challenge, but understand each other helps to work more efficiently and effectively
Diversity and performance
Has to do with different people from organization, different backgrounds having different policy, code and conduct coming together to execute task in a project
Diverse team do better work because it has so with collective idea from different expertise from different organization or department
Well the challenges here are
competition among the members
Disagreement will surely arise
Delay might take place sue unfamiliarity among the team members
A highly diverse team tends to have a great performance. At my place of work where all of us are from different background with different experiencs. we were able to achieve was a great team with lots of creativity, understanding and commitment to execution of tasks.
Also, the team gets motivated knowing there’s a reward system put in place for success if achieved and project delivered before the deadline.
Based on experience, a diverse team leads to more productivity and a positive overall performance. I think there is a strong link between team diversity and team productivity
A highly diverse team leads to a great performance. i have worked in an organisation where all of us were from different background. what we were able to achieve was a great team with lots of creativity and commitment to execution of tasks
There’s positive relationship between the diversity of team members and the team’s ability to absorb and respond to diverse challenges. The random selection of team members brings about expressions of variety of skills and capabilities to meet the unpredictable variety of possible challenges and gives room for agility to breakthrough VUCA.
However, for a simple or predictable projects in stable environments, it is cogent for teams to be homogenous with high levels of social cohesion to avoid communication barrier, descremination, delayed in project execution and poor collaboration.
Nevertheless, the PM will need to harness his management skills efficiently in diversity teams by ensuring their is no communication gap, descremination, etc and ensure team members have an earlier understanding of the charting.