4.2: Diversity
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Within any group of people there will be many aspects of diversity. Whether the focus of investigation is a sports team, a school class, a work group within an organization, or a group of online learners, these groups are made up of individuals who differ on at least some dimensions of diversity (Maznevski, 1994). While many would acknowledge that no two persons are alike in every respect and therefore can be regarded as diverse relative to each other, it is the similarities between some specified group of people and differences to other groups that has been the focus of much research on diversity (Cox, 1993; Hofstede, 2004; Thomas, 1995; Triandis, 1995b). Indeed it is this ability to identify meaningful distinctions that make diversity a useful and extensively studied concept (Nkomo, 1995).