Team Diversity

Diversity within a team can have both a positive and negative impact on the team. Typically, diversity is beneficial to a successful outcome of a team’s project; however, diversity can cause potential problems within the team. Differences in personality, occupation, ethnicity, and skills are a few aspects of diversity that may challenge a team.
Difference in occupation is one example of diversity that will most often occur within a team. A team that is put together at work may have to deal with individuals from different departments who have different views of how the task at hand should be handled in order to benefit that person’s department. The same can be said for a team made up of employees within the same departments. The individuals on the team may be motivated by results that would benefit them individually rather than benefit the team as a whole.
Our team is comprised of individuals who are looking to benefit the team and the final outcome, not for individual g...