Organizational Behavior: Multiculturalism at Workplace

Running head: ORGANIZATION BEHAVIOR
Organization Behavior
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Introduction:
The emergence of globalization has rendered radical change on the overall organizational
behavior and culture. Youssef-Morgan and Hardy (2014) opined that employees from diverse
cultural backgrounds and attitudes are associated with the business process. In order to expand
their entire business in various geographic boundaries the organization has to hire large number
of employees from different cultural as well as religious backgrounds and attitudes. Rendering
multiculturalism at the workplace is one of the most effective ways of grabbing global
customers. However, after implementing multiculturalism at the workplace numerous problems
are identified at the workplace.
This very specific study has focused to make a critical evaluation about a particular quote
“it is better to rely on stereotypes than to enter into a relation with someone from another
culture without any idea of what they believe in”. Before, analyzing this statement with proper
evaluation of opinion of numerous scholars, the study should provide in-depth overview about
the concept organizational behavior. Organization behavior is the study on how people at the
workplace tend to follow business cultures, values, ethics and beliefs. In order to be a part of a
business organization, every single employee has to follow organizational cultures and values.
Harmening and Lunz (2015) opined that due to the entrance of people from various geographical
and cultural backgrounds at the workplace, business experts have to face difficulties in
maintaining effective relation with them. In this kind of situation, the organizational managers
decide to avoid cultural diversity at the workplace.
This very specific study by using numerous organizational behavior theory and policy has
decided to evaluate critically about the essence of this statement. Numerous scholars having

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specific knowledge and understanding on organization behavior has expressed their own opinion
regarding this very specific issue or statement.
Discussion:
Rhoads and Valadez (2016) stated that amalgamation of people from diverse cultural
backgrounds and attitudes have to face innumerable challenges in maintaining an effective
rapport with each other. The success of a business organization is highly dependent on the team
and its group performance. Individual performance can never meet business objectives and goal.
Therefore, the organizations in order to expand the wings beyond going regional market should
get effective group performances. Ravazzani (2016) emphasized that maintaining employee
relation with the people of different cultural background is very important for providing best
services towards reaching the business goal. While dealing with the people of different cultural
backgrounds as well as attitudes business managers have to face language barrier, psychological
barrier and cultural barriers. Being unable to make a proper interaction with each other
employees fail to share their thoughts and information regarding business process. Consequently,
the customer service is getting immensely affected. In this kind of situation, most of the business
experts avoid to render cultural diversity at the workplace. Human resource managers while
recruiting the employees focus on the language and cultural backgrounds and the applicants.
However, large numbers of eminent scholars have firmly protested on the statement
mentioned above. Courtois et al. (2014) opined that without rendering cultural diversity the
business experts would not be able to spread their business process in multinational countries. In
addition, Barak (2016) stated that employees from different cultural backgrounds and attitudes
can give effective performance. Business organization while maintaining a proper rapport among