Management

Posted: January 16th, 2014

The readings this week discuss a wide array of influences that have converged to help create today’s multicultural world, including political histories, foreign direct investment and the Internet and wireless digital technologies, to name a few.
Consider the factors that have enabled the rise of multinational enterprises, from language adoption to technological advances to financial globalization. What benefits and problems arise from these very factors with regard to cultural diversity in a business organisation? What skills are needed to manage cultural diversity in an ever-changing global environment?