How To Manage Cultural Diversity For Organizational Knowledge Sharing

Abstract

The concepts of international and globalisation of business have increased the importance and involvement of workforce diversity in organizations. Especially after some empirical studies, which proved workforce diversity, being effective for superior organizational performance in terms of acquisition of diversified talents, skills, perspectives and knowledge bases of the culturally heterogeneous employees, the interest of organizations in employing diversified workforce and researchers in understanding the salient features of diversified workforce has increased multi-fold. This is due to a number of complications, problems and issues of cultural diversity to organizational knowledge sharing as being reported by the participants in the studies on knowledge sharing. Hence, there is ample need to suggest the firms how to manage their cultural diversity in order to mitigate its detrimental effects and make it a contributory factor for organizational knowledge sharing. Hence, this article is an effort to suggest the firms how to manage their culturally diversified force especially for fostering knowledge sharing. This is hoped that this research article will help managers and practitioners to manage their workforce diversity well and capitalize on the diverse knowledge resources of their human capital.