MANAGEMENT DIVERSITY

The paper outlines the possibilities of diversity management in relation to managing people with diverse personality characteristics. This issue was mentioned by many authors, but a complex solution to solve this discrepancy in managing people with different personalities to reach high performance was not described in human resource theories yet. Managers are missing a useful set of tools and recommendations for this important part of people management. The research confirmed that is highly important to work with personal diversity in Czech labor market. Based on the research the document suggests principles of managing diversity and creates a model so that employers could use the available human capital more efficiently and improve quality of working life of their employees as well. Based on number of primary sources, the thesis presents a view of diversity management, justifies its purpose and use in practice. Using an extensive questionnaire survey and both quantitative and qualitative analysis of gathered data, the conclusions confirm importance of the topic for human resource management in the Czech Republic, and point out the current unsatisfactory state that organizations themselves are often trying to improve.