Cultural Diversity

GLOBAL HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ISSUES

The effects of global variations on human resources should be considered by the global human resource management. Also there are number of barriers and challenges in the ways of which influence its overall credibility. Here are some challenges and barriers that come in the way of effective global human resource management.

Cultural Diversity.



The biggest challenge for Global Human Resource Management is understanding and maintaining cultural diversity. Working with people from different locations or from different cultural backgrounds mean adapting the business's work style to new ideas, new ways of communicating and unfamiliar social practices.
Hofstede (1980) defined that culture as ‘the collective mental programming of people in an environment’, referred to cultural values as broad tendencies ‘to prefer certain states of affairs over others’, and described organizations as ‘culture-bound’. He found that there are four national cultural dimensions: uncertainty avoidance, masculinity/femininity, power distance and individualism/collectivism from using worldwide data on IBM employees.
Workforce diversity is among the many environmental trends affecting organizations in the recent years, and it can be defined as an organization composed of the mixture of workers with different group identities, who show differences depending on demographic or other characteristics. The criteria discriminating these groups include race, geographic origin, ethnicity, gender, age, functional or educational background, physical and cognitive capability, language, lifestyles, beliefs, cultural background, economic category, tenure with organization and sexual preference (Bhadury et al., 2000)

Based on this, the workforce composition which is formed by workers of various cultural groups in scope of workforce diversity in organizations indicates cultural diversity (Seymen, 2006)

As distinctive qualities of groups and individuals resulting from cultural diversity in organizations affect the workers‟ sense of identity and their way of perceiving each other; also the differences in the management style, organizational attitude patterns, behavioural characteristics and communication styles can mostly be traced back to cultural effects (Frey Ridway, 1997)

REFERENCE

Bhadury. H, Mighty, E J, and Damar. H, Maximizing workforce diversity in project teams: A network flow approach The International Journal of Management Science, 28 (2000).

Fre-Ridgway. S, The cultural dimension of international business", Collection Building (1997)

Hofstede, G. (1980). Culture's consequences: International differences in work-related values. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage

Seymen. O A, The cultural diversity phenomenon in organisations and different approaches for effective cultural diversity management: a literary review", Cross Cultural Management: An International Journal (2006)








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  1. M.S.F.SafraMay 7, 2018 at 7:45 AM

    You can more focus on real world examples.. Article contains different fonts..

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  2. Ruwan PremarathnaMay 11, 2018 at 8:17 AM

    If you have defined what is HRM & the steps of HRM i feel it's more relavant.

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  3. UnknownJune 13, 2018 at 6:48 AM

    Very well written essay taken into consideration diversity and culture the referencing is good some examples from global firms would have added value

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  4. UnknownJune 29, 2018 at 8:53 PM

    Interesting topic and explain it very clearly.

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  5. Upul MedakotuwaJune 30, 2018 at 2:36 AM

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