Global Perspectives on Maintaining Gender, Age, and Religious Diversity in the Workplace: (Advances in Human Resources Management and Organizational Development)

Diversity is an issue that is pervasive in this globalized world. As most countries are eager to ensure they are as diverse and inclusive as possible, broadening the hemispheres of diversity in the workplace is a crucial step. Consciously or unconsciously, individuals tend to change the way they treat coworkers in the workplace based on gender, age, and religion. In order for businesses across the globe to achieve inclusive workplace cultures, further study is required on the best practices, challenges, and strategies of implementing diversity into policy. Global Perspectives on Maintaining Gender, Age, and Religious Diversity in the Workplace captures insights into global perspectives on issues, challenges, and solutions for mitigating gender, age, and religious diversity-related matters in the workplace. The book aims to highlight policies and practices prevalent in a variety of sectors in different countries around the globe. Covering topics such as cross-cultural leadership, diversity policy, and wellbeing, this reference work is crucial for business owners, managers, human resources professionals, researchers, scholars, academicians, practitioners, instructors, and students.

About the Author :
Kakul Agha is a PhD, Aligarh Muslim University India; MBA-HRM; PG in Higher Education Professional Practice, Coventry University UK, and carries 26 years of UG/PG teaching, research, dissertation, internship, consultancy & PhD supervision experience in UAE, Oman & India. Since 2014, she is an Associate Professor & Head-HRM at Skyline University College UAE, where she won “Award for Excellence in Teaching Effectiveness” (2016-17 & 2022-23); “Excellence in Services” (2017-18) and “Excellence in Research” (2018-19). She received Award from Ministry of Infrastructure Development, Dubai for Mentoring Innovation Projects (2018). Till 2014 Dr Agha was Head, PG Department, Middle East College, and Visiting Professor, Sultan Qaboos University, Sultanate of Oman. Dr Agha has published books, cases, book-chapters and research articles in management, wellbeing, work-life balance and education domains. She is a certified Trainer runs a podcast channel on Spotify -The Business Bubbles. Mireia Las Heras Maestro (https://mireialasheras.com/) is a Professor in the Managing People in Organizations Department at IESE Business School, at University of Navarra. She is the Director of the International Center for Work and Family (ICWF). She is an Industrial Engineer by training, holds an MBA from IESE Business School, and a Doctorate in Business Administration from Boston University. She has widely published and researched on Work Family issues around the World. She’s published extensively in high impact journals such as Journal of Applied Psychology, Human Relations, Journal of Vocational Behavior, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Human Resource Management Journal and Journal of Business Research among others. She has coedited six research books. She is the chair of the International Work Family Conference in Barcelona every two years, which brings together researchers from all over the World and in 2023 will celebrate its 10th edition. She loves Social media and is rather active, especially in LinkedIn.