Managing Culturally Diverse Workplaces

Griffith University |

3120 HSL Managing culturally diverse workplaces |

Research paper |

9 September 13 |

Managing cultural diversity workplaces are a challenge that has the potential to influence organization positively or negatively. People are an organization’s most important key of assets and knowing how to maximize their abilities is critical to success. Utilizing diversity and acknowledging, appreciating will help build the resources that business needs to be successful now and in the future. Australia has seen dramatic changes in the structure of its workplace. Now made up of women, immigrants, and minorities are increasing percentage of workplace. In addition to these workers, who speak variety different languages, approaches to work, and have varying customs, the population is also getting older, requiring people who are from different age groups with different generational values to have to work side by side.

Manager will require more training to be successfully. Manager should aware of the labor market demands new workers are placing on every facet of our economy. They bring new perspectives, skill, experiences, and approaches to the work environment. This will force most managers have to develop new skills (Josh Greenberg 2005).

The essay is explained managers understand, appreciate and lead employees who may look, speak, act and behave differently than what they have been accustomed to.

There is identification that Australia has a long standing and continuing commitment to a pluralist, diverse, democratic society based on freedom, equality of opportunity, tolerance and peace.

Multiculturalism has evolved as the dominant bipartisan policy approach to address Australia's cultural diversity since the early 1970s.

Since that time momentous advances have been made in the workplaces. For example, anti-discrimination laws have been enacted. Government programs have become more sensitive to the needs of all clients, society has...