In the context of work/organizations, diversityIn the context of work/organizations, diversity is a busines... is a business/employment term originating in the late 1900s, referring to the qualityAn attribute or level of excellence. The standard of a produ... of a workforce (and potentially a group of users/customers or audience) as defined by its mixture of people according to ethnicity, race, religion, disability, gender, sexuality, age, etc. The use of the term diversityIn the context of work/organizations, diversity is a busines... assumes that an equal non-discriminatory approach to employment produces positive effects, for staff, working environment, society, etc., and is an extremely healthy and ethical principle. As such the term ‘diversity’ has become a strongly symbolic principle, rather like other big progressive movements in organizational and societal/economic thinking such as ‘green’, ‘sustainability’, ‘ethics’, ‘governance’, etc.
