Workforce diversity: benefits and challenges as diversity in the workplace increases, interacting and communicating with your coworkers will present specific challenges and rewards. in order do successfully navigate today's workplace, be sensitive to the diverse backgrounds of your coworkers. read the following scenarios, and then choose the best answer for the questions that follow. you are a manager at an it consulting firm. as a manager, it is your job to put together workgroups that will produce creative and effective results and products for clients. what strategy could you employ to come up with the best groups? o choose teams that are primarily of the same culture or race and add one or two others based on their personal strengths and weaknesses. o throw all the names in a hat and randomly choose your teams. choose not to focus only on differences in race or gender but also on the overall strengths and weaknesses of each person. you are a manager at a greeting card company. one afternoon an employee comes to you seeking advice on how to deal with diversity challenges in his workgroup. what is the best piece of advice you can give him? o "there is a diversity training session being held in the conference room on friday that i am requiring you to attend. in the meantime, understand that this is our culture, so if you don't get along with people, you will be fired." o "there is a diversity training session being held in the conference room on friday that i would encourage you to attend. in the meantime, try to focus on the similarities of your coworkers and stay away from making assumptions. make sure you are clear on how you fit into your workgroup as well." o "you are right. you work with a really difficult group from so many foreign countries. i don't know how you guys get along. just hang in there and hope for the best."