Cultural Diversity

Palich, L.E. and Gomez-Mejia, L.R. (1999) admit that their claims… “regarding the deleterious effects of cultural diversity for global firms clearly diverge from the “value-in-diversity” perspective that dominates contemporary theory.”

Through a detailed review of the relevant literature, examine the arguments supporting the view that cultural diversity can have a positive impact on global firms.

Throughout the following pages I will explain the reasons why there is support for cultural diversity within the workplace even though it has been exploited as having a detrimental affect upon domestic and international companies. Having examined the literature there are a number of key topics which I feel benefits from cultural diversity within business.

Diversity is defined as all of the ways in which we differ. If we stop today and look around, we will see many workers of different ages, sex, nationality and culture working together side by side, this has caused companies...