Corporate with adaptation as an engine and diversity as its driver

Dec 30
09:10

2011

Ranganathan

Ranganathan

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Unless the corporate leaders encourage both adaptation and diversity, meeting or dealing competition in the market....

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Does loyalty cause ‘adaptation’? If so,Corporate with adaptation as an engine and diversity as its driver Articles will the adaptation favour diversity or the adaptation is quite opposite of diversity? 

If we were to believe that the adaptation to be as a consequence of loyalty, then such adaptation is good or bad to the corporate?

The question is very difficult even to understand let alone it can be answered easily.  The meaning of all the three terms viz., loyalty, diversity and adaptation must be understood not from the perspective of evolution but from the perspective of the corporate management.  

Whenever a species attempts to make an ecosystem as its foraging, residing and reproducing site, one can easily say that the species has developed loyalty to that ecosystem.  Naturally such species tend to live there and protect or safeguard its existential needs in the given ecosystem, in fact the very ecosystem too.  The species either will try to calibrate the ecosystem for its needs or would try to bring the necessary changes within it to live there.  The former is called niche and the later is called adaptation.  The species that adapt mainly because it is loyal to the ecosystem as it does not wants to move out from there. 

In nature, the process of evolution or diversity is not a simple process as it takes several hundreds of years to occur.   But the similar situation cannot be expected in the corporate.  Hence, one has to see loyalty, diversity and adaptation in employees in relation to the organization in any given point of time. 

The topic of discussion is whether loyalty would favour adaptation or diversity?  Whether adaptation or diversity, corporate requires the most?    The simple answer would be both along with loyalty.  But the meaning is not as simple as what has been answered or understood.  Diversity means the ability of the employees to fit into different roles and responsibilities as and when required, as they have acquired sufficient competence and abilities.

Smooth running of the corporate requires adaptation as an engine and diversity as its driver, only then it can continuously make relevance and necessity to its consumers/customers.   Many corporate leaders, especially the single man dominant corporate always breed loyalty and adaptation in the employees.  The only meaning they have ever understood for success is loyalty and adaptation.    Such an organization although may grow to some extent but necessarily the growth would stop suddenly and spontaneously when they face a threat from competition as they do not have either experience or competence or wisdom to deal competition.  

All they know is only to adapt, adapt and adapt.    Only through adaptation, they deal competition.  Absolute lack of innovation, strategy and smartness they exhibit when competition hit them hard.  If they have also bread diversity, they will have innovation possibility to deal competition.   But unfortunately, they cannot move away from the premises of ‘loyalty’ and ‘adaptation’.  Only a visionary HR alone can guide such organizations to change the mindset.   You need loyal people and people who can adapt to different environments, but they also should have diverse talents and expertise.  Let your learning come from biology.

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