ETHINIC CONFLICT: Does managing ethnic conflicts within the Irish work environment add value to companies?

Abstract

The follow dissertation aims to explore ethnic conflict in the Irish labour market and the added value of these professionals to these companies. The bibliography used were internet articles and books. The methodology applied was qualitative exploratory. A data collection was applied among several professionals performing leadership’s role in the Irish market in order to gather concrete data on the subject. After analysing the data, it was able to conclude that professionals from different ethnic backgrounds add value to the Irish market, but conflicts go beyond ethnic differences and can occur in any field of diversity, including with people of the same ethnicity.