Conestoga College Report: Cultural Diversity in the Modern Workplace

This report examines the crucial role of cultural diversity in the modern workplace, focusing on its impact on company growth and innovation. It analyzes the increasing need for diversity management in international companies and the challenges posed by differing national cultures. The report poses the research question of how cultural diversity affects company growth and innovation, referencing studies by Lambert (2016) and Li et al. (2017) to support the arguments. The report highlights the connection between organizational diversity, firm performance, and creativity, emphasizing the benefits of diverse teams. It also includes a detailed plan outlining the research process, including time taken, obstacles encountered, and assistance received. Despite facing challenges in data collection, the author expresses confidence in the uniqueness and applicability of the research for business growth and requests review and approval of the proposal. References to key studies are provided to support the analysis.

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DATE: [date submitted]
SUBJECT: Cultural Diversity in the Workplace
The aim of this paper is to analyse the importance of encouraging cultural diversity in
the workplace and need for maintaining diversity management in the companies. The more
the companies are becoming international, the more the need for increasing diversity in the
workplace is increasing, this is due to the fact that the benefits of promoting cultural diversity
in the workplace is being clearly seen.
This particular topic is essential because the companies are expanding in different part
of the world which is mandating the recruitment of the local employees in the workplace.
Now the national culture of different markets are different that affect the actual organisational
culture of the company (Li et al., 2017). This is the reason why study of mitigating these
differences is essential otherwise the cultural diversity will be wasted in one hand and create
confusion among the human workforce on the other.
The research question is how cultural diversity can affect the growth of the companies
and develop the innovative process in production. In order to answer such question, the
studies by Lambert (2016) and Li et al., (2017) can be referred.
Lambert, J. (2016). Cultural diversity as a mechanism for innovation: Workplace
diversity and the absorptive capacity framework. Journal of Organizational Culture,
Communications and Conflict, 20(1), 68.
This study by Lambert (2016), the connection between the organizational diversity as
well as firm performance has been detailed. This article has mentioned about the limited

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understanding of the need of diversity in the firm performance. The more culturally diverse
the firms are, the more innovative they will be. The group diversity has been connected
through creativity that absorb capacity framework in the organization. This paper has
discussed how the diversity as well as the manner through which the firm level innovation for
flourishing. Here diversity and creativity has been connected in such a way that the
organostions can utilise their human resource in a unique and positive way. The managers
thus can be beneficial from the understanding of how the diversity in the firm levels
innovation. These help in attempting for adopting the strategies for creating the new products
and services along with ideas.
Plan to achieve Days Time taken Obstacle Assisted by
Gathering
information
through
secondary data
15 days 90 hours Inability to
access library
data
Mentor and
librarians
Literature
review
7 days 42 hours Part time job Mentor and
internet support
Survey and
interview for
primary data
20 days 120 hours Inability to
reach volunteers
and participants
Mentor
Conclusion 5 days 30 hours Aligning
information
properly and
Part time job
Tutors
Despite of various problems in accessing libraries for the secondary data collection
and reluctance of the volunteers to contribute in this primary data collection method, I have
tried to complete this research. I think the idea is unique and applicable for the business
growth. I would be obliged if you review the topic the proposal and approve this research
work.
Thanking you.

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Name

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References:
Lambert, J. (2016). Cultural diversity as a mechanism for innovation: Workplace diversity
and the absorptive capacity framework. Journal of Organizational Culture,
Communications and Conflict, 20(1), 68.
Li, C. R., Lin, C. J., Tien, Y. H., & Chen, C. M. (2017). A multilevel model of team cultural
diversity and creativity: The role of climate for inclusion. The Journal of Creative
Behavior, 51(2), 163-179.