Diversity
Diversity, diversify, or diverse may refer to:
Business
- Diversity (business), the inclusion of people of different identities (ethnicity, gender, age) in the workforce. The most diverse companies are now more likely than ever to outperform less diverse peers on profitability. Our research has found that gender diversity and ethnic/cultural diversity of leadership improve financial performance, with the strongest business case for diversity in terms of performance in our study.
- Diversity marketing, marketing communication targeting diverse customers
- Supplier diversity, the use of diverse suppliers
Politics
- Diversity (politics), the political and social policy of encouraging tolerance for people of different cultural and racial backgrounds
- Diversity Immigrant Visa or Green Card Lottery, a United States immigration program
- Diversity jurisdiction, a concept under which U.S. federal courts can hear suits between parties from different states
- Diversity training, the process of educating people to function in a diverse environment
- Cultural diversity, the respect of different cultures and interculturality
- Functional diversity (disability), a term for special needs, disability, impairment and handicap
- Gerodiversity, a multicultural approach to issues of aging
- Multiculturalism, or ethnic diversity, the promotion of multiple ethnic cultures
- Neurodiversity, a movement in support of civil rights of people with atypical neurological characteristics
Science
- Diversity factor, a concept in electrical engineering
- Functional diversity, a term in geography
- Linguistic diversity
- Diversity (mathematics), a generalization of metric space
Biology
- Biodiversity, degree of variation of life forms within an ecosystem
- Crop diversity, the variance in genetic and phenotypic characteristics of plants used in agriculture
- Diversity index, a statistic to assess the diversity of a population
- Ecosystem diversity, the diversity of a place at the level of ecosystems
- Functional diversity (ecology), the elements of biodiversity that influence how ecosystems function
- Genetic diversity, the total number of genetic characteristics in the genetic makeup of a species
- Nucleotide diversity, a measure of the degree of polymorphism within a population
- Phylogenetic diversity, a measure of biodiversity which incorporates phylogenetic difference between species
- Species diversity, the effective number of species represented in a data set
- Diversity (journal), an academic journal published by MDPI
Technology
- Diversity combining, the combining of multiple received signals into a single improved signal
- Diversity gain, the increase in signal-to-interference ratio due to a diversity scheme
- Diversity scheme, a method for improving reliability of a message signal by using multiple communications channels
- Antenna diversity or space diversity, a method of wireless communication that use two or more antennas to improve reliability
- Cooperative diversity, a multiple antenna technique for improving or maximising total network channel capacities
- Site diversity, multiple receivers for satellite communication
- Time diversity, a technique used in digital communication systems
- Transmit diversity, wireless communication using signals originating from two or more independent sources
As a proper name
Music
- Diversity (album), a 2010 reggae album by Gentleman
- Diversity (dance troupe), an English dance troupe based in London
- Diversity FM, a radio station in Lancaster, England
- Diverse (rapper)
- "Diverse", a song by Charlie Parker
Other
- Diversity University, a virtual reality system for education
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