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Discuss the specific challenges of managing a culturally diverse organisation with which you are familiar. Drawing upon ideas from Hofstede, Cox Jnr and other materials in this Unit, suggest some strategies of overcoming those challenges. by An assignment submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of PDAS 591 - Cross-Cultural Management University of New England 2007 INTRODUCTION The survival of mankind will depend to a large extent on the ability of people who think differently to act together (Hofstede 2000:9) In today's workplace, the impact of organisational cultural diversity is at the highest point it has ever been. Historically viewed as an employment equity issue, organisational cultural diversity emerged as a management issue in the late 1980's following the publication of Workforce 2000: Work and Workers for the Twenty-First Century (Johnston 1987). Building upon the observations of the previous decade, the need to proactively manage organisational cultural diversity continued to gain acceptance, throughout the 1990's, as forward-thinking...

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