Managing Cultural Diversity: Implication for Organizational Innovativeness

Abstract

It is a known fact that the workplace is a repository of culturally diverse workforce, who brings their difference cultural inclinations and expertise to bear in pursuit of the general organizational goal. A diverse workforce comes with both benefits and challenges which are consequences of how the workforce is managed. This paper examines the theoretical implication of cultural diversity management on organizational innovativeness. The piece began with conceptual exposition of culture and the organization, organizational innovativeness as well as cultural diversity. Further, the paper identified cultural variables in the impeding workforce with subsequent management efforts of the diversity. Eventually, diverse cultural implications on organization innovativeness were emphasized. Findings are that; team that has variety of diverse characteristics can collectively spark a height of inventiveness, and likely exude better capacity to resolve intricate glitches and offers superior solution. Also, organization thrives creatively and innovatively in a culturally diverse workforce tolerant environment.