A Study on Cultural Diversity Management for Indian Organizations

This research explores various dimensions of culture, cultural diversity, implications of cultural diversity in an organization, identification of various cultural influences existing in an organization using Hofstede and Trompenaar's model of cultural diversity, identifying the status of cultural competency in an organization through Bennett's and Howell's model of cultural competency, tracking the best practices prevailing in organizations worldwide. The traditional approach to handling multiculturalism in complex organizations has been to expect members of the minority culture to adapt to cultural requirements of the majority group. Cultural diversity is important for any organization to grow, develop, compete and retain its greatest resource that is human talent. This study equipped by various models in order to understand the cultural diversity, competency and level competency.