• LAKSHMIPATHIAIAH M.G.

Economic globalization is one of the driving forces of cultural diversity in the workplace. The modern workforce is made up of people of different genders, ages, ethnicity, religions, and nationalities. Employers have realized that workforce diversity provides both material and intangible benefits. In order for employers to reap the benefits of cultural diversity in the workplace, they must communicate their commitment to addressing the challenges of a diverse workforce. Employers must be seen to be celebrating their employees’ diversity to avoid workplace issues, like awkwardness and hostility. Cultural diversity includes race, ethnicity, age, ability, language, nationality, socio-economic status, gender, religion, or sexual orientation. The group is diverse if a wide variety of groups are represented. Cultural diversity has become a hot-button issue when applied to the workplace. Cultural diversity in the workplace has grown as a trend over the passage of time with the increase of globalization in the world. One positive effect is that employees belonging to different cultures usually have different ways of thinking and can thus analyze a matter at hand from variety of perspectives. This is hard to achieve when employees belonging to the same culture are asked to analyze the same matter.

Workforce diversity, cultural diversity, human resource management, etc.

"EFFECTS OF CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN THE WORKPLACE", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 10, page no.1056-1059, October-2020, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2010141.pdf

"EFFECTS OF CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN THE WORKPLACE", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 10, page no. pp1056-1059, October-2020, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2010141.pdf