EXPANDING DIVERSITY

Expanding Diversity Consciousness in the Workplace

Abstract

In this study we try to explore the concept of “workplace diversity” in a holistic context. The main focus of the research is on “the workplace diversity” and its relation with “cross-cultural factors in the organization”. The research has selected three organizations as the target population. The study will draw a random sample from these organizations in order to accumulate the data. The data collection tool used in this research is the self-administered questionnaire and the data would be collected via interview. The study will analyze the accumulated data through SPSS in order to get valid and reliable results. The results draw from this study can be used in the future studies or to formulate effective strategies to manage diversity in organization.

Table of Contents

Chapter 01: Introduction4

Chapter 02: Literature Review5

Cultural Barriers in Organization6

Analysis of Main Cultural Barriers7

Chapter 03: Methodology8

Chapter 04: Results9

Intercultural Competence9

Cultural Diversity and Management11

Chapter 05: Discussion13

Chapter 06: Conclusion14

References15

Chapter 01: Introduction

The word culture represent different categories: at the level of ordinary consciousness - as a set of manners and customs, and among cultural studies and sociology, in accordance with the definition of culture as a specific way of organization and development of human life, represented in the product's material and spiritual work in the system social norms and institutions, spiritual values, in the aggregate people's attitudes to nature and each other and to ourselves. Globalization, regional integration, migration and demographic changes create new preconditions for inter-mingling of individuals and cultures, pose new challenges to organizations, which encounter representatives of different cultures and social groups in domestic and global markets. The society is not homogeneous; i.e., in different activities, individuals from other cultures, companies with different organizational culture, of other sexes or minority groups are met. Cultural diversity management is a relatively new concept of company management.

In the United States, cultural diversity concept has not been broadly examined in fields of business and management, while focusing mostly on multi-culturism in comprehensive schools and searching for the importance of culture cognition in business. They key competence of the individual enabling them to operate in the context of diversified culture is the intercultural one, and foreign scientists have been paying particular attention to the analysis of its notion and meaning over the last two decades. The purpose of this paper is expanding diversity consciousness in the workplace. This paper aims to explore the cultural diversity in three organization selected as the sample of this study and interpret the valuable information and statistical analysis of the data obtained from the organizations. The tool used in this paper to accumulate the data is the self-administered questionnaire, and the data would be collected via interview.

Chapter 02: Literature Review

Underestimation of cross-cultural gaps in the joint work often leads to a crisis of business relations, lower business activity. Meanwhile, the connection of different business cultures in the management involves not only openness and mutual trust, but a serious effort to develop plans for strategic development and marketing ...