Consider the role of HR specialist in developing and implementing diversity policies.

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Managing Diversity.

Consider the role of HR specialist in developing and implementing diversity policies.

Diversity:

Before discussing Managing Diversity and HR, we need to define that what dose diversity means? When we usually think about diversity we tend to think about ethnicity and race, and then gender; however, diversity is much broader than that. Diversity is otherness or those human qualities that are different from our own and outside the groups to which we belong, yet present in other individuals and groups. According to Loden and Rosener (2001) "diversity has many dimensions which include, but are not limited to: age, ethnicity, ancestry, gender, physical abilities, race, sexual orientation, educational background, geographic location, income, marital status, religious beliefs, parental status, and work experience." (loden and Rosner .Diversity HRweb)

Galagan (1991) also points out that "Diversity refers to much more than skin colour and gender. It can encompass age, race, religious affiliation, economic class, militarily experience and sexual orientation." CIPD report,Diversity: Stacking up the evidence (Anderson and Metcalf 2003) , put all these different types of diversities into three basic groups which are

1. Social category diversity such as age, sex and race,