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    OB Response: Global and Cultural Diversity

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    The document discusses global and cultural diversity in organizations. It notes that diverse teams with employees from different functions, markets, geographies and cultures can generate the most innovative solutions. Managing diversity presents both challenges and opportunities for organizational behavior, such as responding to globalization, managing a diverse workforce, improving quality and productivity, and improving customer service. The major categories of workforce diversity include gender, disability, age, race, national origin, and domestic partnerships.

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    The document discusses global and cultural diversity in organizations. It notes that diverse teams with employees from different functions, markets, geographies and cultures can generate the most innovative solutions. Managing diversity presents both challenges and opportunities for organizational behavior, such as responding to globalization, managing a diverse workforce, improving quality and productivity, and improving customer service. The major categories of workforce diversity include gender, disability, age, race, national origin, and domestic partnerships.

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    The document discusses global and cultural diversity in organizations. It notes that diverse teams with employees from different functions, markets, geographies and cultures can generate the most innovative solutions. Managing diversity presents both challenges and opportunities for organizational behavior, such as responding to globalization, managing a diverse workforce, improving quality and productivity, and improving customer service. The major categories of workforce diversity include gender, disability, age, race, national origin, and domestic partnerships.

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    OB response

    Global and Cultural diversity

    Presented by:
    Prakash Dhakal
    Sushma Joshi
    Global and Cultural Diversity

    • The most innovative, creative solutions to problems


    often are borne from teams of globally diverse
    employees with experience in different
    functions, markets, geographies and cultures.

    • The cultural diversity refers to the variety of the


    makeup or the multiculturalism of a group, organization
    and region.
    Challenges & opportunities for OB

    Responding to Globalization
    •Increased foreign assignments
    •Working with people from different cultures
    •Coping with anti-capitalism backlash
    •Overseeing movement of jobs to countries
    with low-cost labor

    Managing Workforce Diversity


    •Embracing diversity
    •Changing demographics
    •Implications for managers
    •Recognizing and responding to differences
    Challenges & opportunities for OB

    • Improving Quality and Productivity


    – Quality management (QM)
    – Process reengineering
    • Responding to the Labor Shortage
    – Changing work force demographics
    – Fewer skilled laborers
    – Early retirements and older workers
    • Improving Customer Service
    – Increased expectation of service quality
    – Customer-responsive cultures
    Major Workforce Diversity Categories

    Gender
    National
    Disability Origin

    Age
    Non-Christian
    Race

    Domestic
    Partners
    OB response
    Global and Cultural diversity

    • Improving People Skills


    • Integrating a Global Perspective into Diversity
    (Responding to Globalization)
    • Empowering People • Focus on getting best talent
    • Declining employee loyalty
    • Diversifies the organizational strategy • Provide career mentoring cohorts
    • Stimulating Innovation and Change
    • Use diversify in sensor management • Coping with “Temporariness”
    • Improving Ethical Behavior
    OB response
    Global and Cultural diversity

    • Focus on getting best talent


    • Improving People Skills
    • Integrating a Global Perspective • Declining employee loyalty
    into Diversity
    (Responding to Globalization) • Provide career mentoring cohorts
    • Empowering People
    • Diversifies the organizational
    strategy
    • Stimulating Innovation and Change
    • Use diversify in sensor
    management • Coping with “Temporariness”
    • Improving Ethical Behavior
    Any Questions ?

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