Study on Fostering A Cultural Shift Among Its Employees Through Diversity

Abstract

The IT industry is well-known for a highly active pace of development and a rather volatile nature that are acknowledged to pay much heed to diverse organizational culture trends. Pursuant to the above title this paper aims to examine how diversity can be used to facilitate a change within the employees from the IT sector by bringing in positive changes to the manner in which they perform their work, as well as, providing them with greater inventiveness, cooperation, and satisfaction in their tasks. Inclusive of quantitative questionnaires and qualitative interviews on the employees of young Analog and Digital Labs India Pvt Ltd.IT firm, this study aims at specifically establishing and understanding the diversity practices currently in practice in IT companies, and the impacts they have on the structural culture of the organizations. So, one of the important findings of the research is to stress the need and importance of seriousness and focus on diversity and inclusion policies that can not only be a tool for employee engagement but also a guarantee of the company’s effectiveness. Several recommendations to employ major diversity practices of incorporating diversity training in workplaces, enhance leadership with diverse individuals, enforce understanding for the development of supporting culture for underrepresented groups, and strategies for the sustainability of cultural change and its impact are outlined in the paper.