The Competitive Advantage of a Geographically Diverse Workforce

The challenges of managing a locally diverse workforce are manifold. From culture to work style, workforce management still remains a primary task of diversity professionals. What happens when that task expands beyond the local environment and includes the management of diverse people in different geographies? The multitude of challenges include linguistic, nationality and regulatory issues. An additional consideration is the increasingly professional immigrant mobile workforce that is impacting local workforces. These skilled employees are making workforces in traditionally less diverse locales, from Ireland to Iowa, face a new workforce reality: the need for effective diversity management of a geographic workforce that has migrated to a new locale. Hear about how leading global diversity experts have actually effectively managed this type of workforce and have leveraged this workforce’s differences for competitive advantage.