Cultural Diversity in Workplace and the Role of Management

Abstract

In today's competitive corporate environment, cultural diversity significantly impacts a firm's profitability. The workplace is an environment where people with different cultures can meet to collaborate and support the values and aims of the corporation. The current research is aimed at investigating the role of management in handling cultural diversity in the workplace. The qualitative research methodology is adopted to review the literature to address the research problem. The researcher reviewed the literature from 2019 to 2022. The findings have shown that cultural diversity could increase the performance of a business by bringing creativity, innovation and other beneficial elements to the firm. Though, it has certain drawbacks that can be addressed by appropriate handling by management. The management should devise proper strategies to promote tolerance, acceptance and respect for cultural diversity.

A Bibliometric Analysis of the Role of Cultural Diversity in Multinational Management

“…Multinational companies often focus on the benefits of cultural diversity and overlook these challenges [18]. To address these challenges, it is important for companies to develop strategies that promote tolerance, acceptance, and respect for cultural diversity [19]. Additionally, understanding and managing cultural differences is essential for effective interactions and achieving organizational goals in multicultural teams [20].…”

Exploring Cultural Influences on Project Management Approaches in Global Business Development

“…Cultural similarity (Ezati, 2023;Morris, 2023) Different cultural background (ethnicity or nationality) (Morris, 2023);…”

“…Absence or low inclusion and equality (Morris, 2023) Inclusion and equality (Feitosa et al, 2022;Morris, 2023) Single cultural perspective (Shepherd et al, 2019) Cultural sensitivity (Burkiewicz & Knap-Stefaniuk, 2022;Shepherd et al, 2019;Stahl & Maznevski, 2021) Insufficient cross-cultural competence among team members (Shepherd et al, 2019) High level of cross-cultural competence among team members (Shepherd et al, 2019) Orientation towards inner market (Kipnis et al, 2019) Global market development (Kipnis et al, 2019) Misunderstanding of principles of global business development (Hong & Minbaeva, 2022) Understanding of principles of global business development (Gopalkrishnan, 2019;Hong & Minbaeva, 2022;Szkudlarek et al, 2020) Source: author's own development…”

“…Develop a comprehensive diversity and inclusion strategies in the organization (Feitosa et al, 2022;Morris, 2023);…”

“…Cultural diversity refers to the differences in people's cultural backgrounds, beliefs, and behaviors within a team (Lin, 2019). Findings show that cultural diversity may bring multiple perspectives into a project team and this leads to more innovative outputs in future (Morris, 2023;Stahl & Maznevski, 2021). Effective project management in culturally diverse team is achieved primarily through leadership (Cherian et al, 2020;Piwowar-Sulej, 2021).…”