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The Opinion About the Advantages of Diverse Workforce - University of Chester

   

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Running head: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESSInternational businessName of the studentName of the universityAuthor note

1INTERNATIONAL BUSINESSIn the international business of the multinational organizations, employees are beingselected from different social backgrounds. Thus, the workforce is much diverse and beingrepresented by different social backgrounds. Though, several reports have given the opinionabout the advantages of diverse workforce and how they can be prove beneficial for theorganizations. However, there are certain disadvantages are also present which should beconsidered by the human resource managers in driving the international business (Briscoe,Schuler & Tarique 2012). This essay will discuss about the issues that can be generated in theinternational human resource management and the measures that should be initiated in order toprevent them.One of the key issues that can get generated in the international human resourcemanagement is the cultural shock. Cultural shock refers to the sense of disorientation by theemployees when they are being employed in an area culturally distinctive from him. Theemployees tend to feel isolated in the workplace which is culturally distinctive from their own(Kovaleski, 2013). Eventually, it leads to the reduction in the productivity of the employees.They feel uncomfortable in coordinating with the employees being culturally different. Thus, themutual cooperation and coordination among the employees get affected. In the case of themultinational organizations, operation facilities of them are being located in various countriesaround the world. Thus, in this case, they comprise of the employees coming from differentlocations and social backgrounds. These employees feel isolated in the organizations as well asthe existing employees from the home country also feels uncomfortable in dealing with them. Due to all these reasons, multinational organizations initiate various schemes in order toavoid the cultural shock of the employees as much as possible. This is prime reason for thehuman resource managers in the multinational organizations to look after the cultural aspect of

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