Challenges in managing cross cultural diversity in india
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ABSTRACT:
Culture is something that shapes an individual's behaviour and perception for the world. Small groups including family, work colleagues would create norms, rituals, heroes, even symbols, and as a result of these practices in social life. Thus, it becomes necessary for an individual to know more about the cultural differences prevailing in the society. In today's age of multinational companies flourishing internationally at rapid pace, it gives scope for all to learn about various cultures existing. When people work together, they come from various nationalities, beliefs, values, ideologies, languages. The scope of this paper is to throw light on cross-cultural differences are measured through various dimensions given by cultural researchers. It is very necessary for an international manager to know how to gauge the cultural differences among his employees. There are certain strategies also mentioned in the paper which helps a manager in keeping the differences at bay. It also helps to learn how to change the differences into advantages for an organization.
INTRODUCTION:
Today's workforce is diverse and multi-cultural. Ever since to the advent of globalization, the doors of the nations across the globe were opened for trade and investments. This led to greater development in the areas of finance, marketing, technological innovations, etc. It always laid an impact on people, i.e., human resources. As people in the organization are the first to experience when any change occurs, it was am immense impact of globalization on human resources all over the world. This gave scope to the people to learn many new practices and techniques of completing the task. If we think bit more on this part, we can also assume that people come from various backgrounds, customs, beliefs, languages. Thus, there comes the prominence for understanding what cross culture is for any manager as he has to deal with various people in the organization that come from different cultures, so it become to understand the multi-cultural environment and its pros and cons.
CULTURE: