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What is Invisible Diversity

Chapter 9
Role of Human Resources for Inclusive Leadership, Workplace Diversity, and Equity in Organizations
Refers to those aspects of diversity that cannot be easily seen or recognized and are less outwardly apparent e.g., values, cognitive skills, abilities, beliefs, attitudes, personality traits, etc.
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Cognitive Diversity: Vital but Invisible
Sukhada Tambe (IES's Management College and Research Centre, Mumbai, India)
Copyright: © 2023 |Pages: 19
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-6602-5.ch009
Abstract
Cognitive diversity means having an amalgam of people with different ways of thinking, different skill sets, diverse perspectives, and different viewpoints in the organization. Organizations have realized the importance of diversity in age, gender, qualification, and started taking cognizance of the same. All these are visible forms of diversity. However not much attention is paid to ‘cognitive diversity' because it is not visible and is deep level diversity. Organizations need to have cognitive diversity as a part of their diversity and inclusion (D&I) agenda. Cognitive diversity is indeed the way forward. This study is an effort to understand and explore ‘cognitive diversity' which is invisible in nature, yet of great importance and relevance for the organizations.
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