Importance of Cultural Diversity in Global Organizations

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Legal implications......................................................................................................................3
Demographics affect cultural diversity......................................................................................4
Ethical Implications....................................................................................................................6
Media which is best suited for training in a global setting.........................................................7
Recommendations for implementing the training course..........................................................8
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................9
References................................................................................................................................10

Introduction
The cultural growth of the world has led to globalisation which resulted in a
disseminated and diversified workforce. Cultural diversity denotes the differences in
individual along with accepting them. These differences can be based on many things such as
age, gender, ethnicity, sex, social status and sexual orientation. Workforces in companies
which are culturally diverse tend to be more effective when properly managed and employed
(McClure, McGuire & Loftus, 2019). This is because, when the employees come from
various cultural backgrounds, they have different perspectives and are able to produce
creative ideas.
To properly engage such a workforce, it is important to create effective training
sessions that will improve the teamwork with the employees without widening the gap within
them with their differences. Such global trainings are immensely important in an international
organization as a culturally diverse workforce also gives rise to stereotypes and
discrimination, which can be turned into strong teamwork if trained properly.
Legal implications
The encouragement of cultural differences gives a business the opportunity to further
expand their horizons. The encouragement of employees coming from different cultural
backgrounds share their business practices and belief systems with the organisation so that
they can enhance the ability of the business in order to solve problems (Morgan et al., 2016).
However, at times, cultural diversity within the world of business can cause psychological
problems related to stress. By providing training related to culture and diversity to the
employees I can help the organisation to build a culture of corporate team where they
embrace their diversity and their differences are used as a benefit to the company.

Among the multiple number of benefits of diversity and cultural training the most
important thing is avoiding the legal issues which are awfully time consuming and expensive
for sure. State laws as well as federal law has made it illegal to discriminate against clients
and employees based on their gender, race, age, faith, sexual preferences or physical
disabilities (Wrench, 2015). Training the employees in the areas of culture and diversity will
help the organisation to avoid being sued or penalised because someone stupid has practiced
discrimination against someone else within the boundaries of the workplace which would
also harm the rapport of the company.
In 1965, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) was introduced to
provide equal opportunity to all individuals of all culture, ethnicity and sex (Edwards &
McMahon, 2018). However, there is still a long journey to go through in order to ensure a
workplace free from the clutches of discrimination and also equality in employment. I need to
make sure that the training provided is not of bad quality; it is not done by the organisation
just to “check the box”. I need to focus on topics such as unconscious bias and ethics and
teach the employees the value of equality in the workplace. I have to make sure to provide
both diversity training and compliance training in order to properly educate the employees
about how not to behave in the workplace.
Demographics affect cultural diversity
There are many ways in which people are similar or different from each other.
Diversity may just be characterized by the personalities that varies within a unit of work such
as race, age, education, gender, functional background and tenure. Demographic diversity
focuses on visible and relatively stable diversities such as race, age, gender, physical
disabilities, religion and sexual orientation. For me as a trainer it is challenging to try to
manage diversity effectively. In 2008, more than 95,000 people documented an objection