Managing Cultural Diversity In Organizations Is Crucial For Success. #essay

Discuss About The Cultural Diversity Management In Organizations.

Culture and Diversity

Human Resource refers to the management of human resources in an organization who works for the fulfillment of a common goal or objective. There are many multinational organizations in which people belong to different cultures works and it is very difficult to make them work together for common objective irrespective of their culture, language, tradition and belongingness. There are so many concerns or issues that falls under these types of organizations. In multinational companies, people sit at different location or country and work together on a specific project. They communicate with each other regarding business but in some cases they contradict each other. The reason behind this contradiction is that they belong to different diversity and their way of thinking is different from the people sit in other countries. This creates a huge issue because in such cases, no one can reach to a common decision. In such organizations, human resource management has to take care about the cultural values of the people belong to different culture as well as respect their sentiments and way of thinking. Human resource management also faces some issues in providing training to people belong to different cultures because their learning capabilities are different and the teaching method suitable to them might also different. It is the responsivity of human resource management to plan all the trainings in a suitable way so that it can be beneficial for each and every person irrespective of religion.

As per the literature ‘Increasing diversity as a HRM’ Change strategy has described a lot about all the changes that human resource management needs to be done for the management of diverse workforce. According to the author, human resource management has to create strategies by which there is a high representation on women and minorities at workplace (Dessler, 2014). It is important to manage demographic change in the economic market as well as the labor market and for the same a common HR strategy needs to be created that helps in the hiring of diverse workforce. Although the major HR strategies are related to the management of diversity and they generally apply all the strategies practically on work groups. There are different department in an organization and employees are hired for different departments so it is very important to focus on the demographic changes on each and every department in order to maintain a balance (Amaram, 2011). Employees are divided into departments and this is how it becomes an easier task for human resource management to manage them in an efficient way. There are different work groups into departments and it provides a way of shaping the social meaning to Human resource strategies in order to shift demography of the organization. HR department is responsible to assess the environment and climate of the organization and the direction of all the perceptions. As per the author, his study is also designed to create an exploration of the theoretical stances of the literature that is well grounded as well as mixed. It also described how diversity within the organization leads to change of strategies at work on group level. In this study, author analyzed that there are chances of high variability in the work groups and they would share some common perceptions for the climate for diversity and similar thoughts regarding social reality (Fernandez et al., 2010).

International Performance and Training and Development

This study basically concluded that there is a link between the change in the structure of the organization, its demography and work group interpretation. There are human resource departments that only works in the structural change and do not focus on developing group normal and positive atmosphere. It is important to develop an understanding in each individual regarding the diversity change and the importance of working in a group. Basically it also shows the way to behave in a work group where people work together as per their own convenient way. There is an assumption that hiring of women and minorities creates a hindrance in organizational practice on diversification but this is not right because when there is a mixed crowd then it becomes easy to balance everything. One other objective of the study was to analyze that when there is a high demographic shift then in such cases work groups feels positivity or not (Ivancevich and Konopaske, 2013). The study done by author has described that it is partially supported as some people feels like the demographic shift is good for them while the other take it in a negative way. It has been observed that in demographic work groups, there is a high chance of conflicts as they have to work together on daily basis. When the change strategies start working on work groups then in such cases the demographic shift may get disappeared in order to increase the representation of minorities and women within the actual work groups. All the HR strategies should be related to the characteristics of the people involved in the work groups so that it can be implemented without any issue or concern. People like to follow their own culture as they have an emotional connection with the same so the strategies should not be created in a way that contradicts their culture. In this way the human resources belong to different culture and diversities can be managed in an easy way (Burke, 2010).

International performance management is a very difficult task as there are people belong to different nationalities and there are different approaches of performance management followed in the same. In the literature ‘International Performance Management- issues and challenges’ It is clearly discussed that what king of issues organizations are facing in handling diverse human resource and performance management process of the same (Knecht, 2014). Human resource is the most valuable department in the organization as it carries the organizational culture and environment b working upon it and converts it into positive vibes. International performance management is a very crucial function that has to be carried out by human resource management of global organization. By the introduction of globalization, the job of human resource management has become more complex or full of complexities. According to the author, effective performance management is necessary to calculate the efficiency of employee’s performance (Romanenko, 2012). Employee performance has been measured by analyzing the performance on a specific task and the time taken in the completion. There is a set standard of performance so actual performance has been calculated and comparison between the set standard and actual performance has been done. It helps in knowing the level of improvement an employee wants and the challenges he is facing in completing a particular task (Thacker, 2012). Performance management can be a reason for the success and failure of an organization because it is a very complex process and performance management is a very challenging task when it comes to global organizations. Employees in global organizations belong to different countries as well as different cultures (Dickie and Soldan, 2008). Performance management helps in assessing the performance of an employee and behavior in the organization. It also helps in identification of the contribution of the employee in company’s success or failure. Proper implementation is necessary for overcoming the issue in performance management. Good performance management system enables the control of MNC subsidiaries and to start emphasize orientation on the goals of the organization and provide a real picture of international operations to motivate the subsidiaries in order to improve the performance in future (Curseu, 2015).

According to the author, performance management majorly helps in two ways-to make all the administrative decisions and to review compensation and promotions but there are some other objectives too like creating developmental objectives for employees, to calculating employees’ efficiency, recognition of the performance of individuals and for making managerial decisions. There are different issues in conducting performance management in international organizations like there is always a lack of a common and universal performance appraisal system that helps in performance management (Davis, 2012). They do not know the most effective approach of performance management suitable for a global business unit. It is also very difficult to separate only job related factors in the process of performance management in an international setting because there are some other factors too that has been judged (Mondy and Martocchio, 2016). There are no common attributes that every organization considers in the performance management process so sometimes it becomes unfair for some people. It was claimed by many international companies that they want to assess the technical capabilities of the employees and it has been notices that it may not be considered as a sufficient criteria for the success of a global organization (Set Up Regular Scenario Trainings, 2016). There are certain criteria that are considered better fir evaluating employee’s performance like personal attitude, cross cultural skills, communication and learning skills. International performance management also consist a challenge because appraisal depends upon the existence of the margin between the evaluation of the rate and the rater (Campling, 2008). Multinational companies are facing a lot of challenges as there is not a single way to analyze the performance of the employees working from different geographies. There are some other factors that add on the complexities in the performance appraisal process like different legal and socio economic environment, different cultures and different social status. These factors might give different results at different places that are not correct (Pecherskaya, 2015).

As per the journal ‘Benefits of Training and Development for Individuals and Teams, Organizations, and Society’ the author described that there is a high importance of training and development in an organization (Kahn, 2013). He explained that training provides some extra knowledge and skills to the employees working in an organization so that they can apply all the knowledge in practical aspect. There is different kind d of training as some are directly related to the job role of the employee while some are regarding the personal growth of the employee that helps in his future growth. It also helps in providing motivation to the employees as well as empowerment in the organization. It helps in the improvement of the performance and brings new positive changes in the organization. It also create a broad positive impact as training provides high benefits to the individuals of an organization that basically improve the nation’s human resources or human capital. This all leads to increase in economic growth of the nation (O?zbilgin, Jonsen and Tatli, 2015).

There are some employees who face challenge in doing their work or they want to improve the work process by implementing better ideas so training help them in such cases by providing them the required knowledge sessions or trainings. Performance of all the employees has been assessed on timely basis so that administration can know about the shortcomings and the issues regarding performance of employees (Schwartz, 2011). Performance review actually helps in knowing the need of training and development of employees. When there is a global organization and people belong to different diversities work over there then in such cases it becomes difficult to provide training to all of them. For resolving the issue, cross cultural training is necessary so that employees can actually know about each other’s culture and understand thoughts and emotions. On organizational level, performance management leads in the improvement of productivity of workforce, increase in sales and overall profitability of the organization (Patel, 2012).

Conclusion

These different diversities and culture creates an issue in the management of human resources and in the implementation of training and development programs. According to different authors, such kind of issue can only be resolves with the proper human resource management strategies that can easily handle the human resources belong to different diversities. It also creates an issue in the performance management system of the people in an organization because of different culture and diversity. Human Resource management plays a very important role in managing everything related to diverse workforce. There are different norms and habits of the people belong to different culture like the way they greet each other or how they resolve disputes in an organization. So, it is important select the best possible suitable way to handle such activities or tasks. There should be strategies and norms according to a particular set standard that needs to be followed by everyone irrespective of their culture and human resource management has to work upon that in proper implementation of the same. In contemporary work environment, this is a very common thing to find out people of different culture in an organization so as there are new policies and procedures that these organizations are following to make them comfortable at a different culture. In such organizations, no one can feel that he/she is belong to some different community or different diversity as work environment is almost similar in every office premises of that organization. It also provides benefits to the society. Trainings help people to develop some extraordinary skills in themselves and make them more confident. In many big companies, training has become the part of their regular curriculum and they schedule timely trainings for the employees so that they can develop a habit of learning within themselves.

Organizations can maximize the benefits of the training by asking for feedbacks and surveys. This can helps an organization to know about the effectiveness of the training as well as the requirement of the employees. In Multinational companies, people basically have different choices because they belong to different diversities. It might be possible that some part of employees like the training and some do not like it. Such matters basically increase the chances of conflicts and mismatch of thoughts. Training sessions should be used in a way so that it can make all of them together and start making them known to each other in a better way. People learn so many things in such organizations because there are different people with different knowledge areas so they can also get the benefit out of it. There are some people who suffer from linguistic issues so people from different culture can help them in learning different languages and make them understand the same. Training evaluation is also very important because sometimes employees are unable to understand certain thing because of the bad skills of trainer or improper training environment. It is good to create an evaluation of training so that it becomes easy for an organization to resolve all the issues and make training sessions more effective. Training evaluation should be confidential so employees can easily represent their views and concerns. The author concluded that there are multiple benefits of providing training sessions at workplace and it actually helps in the fulfillment of the goals of the organization. It increases the efficiency of the employees and makes them more brilliant and knowledgeable.

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