Going Global: Are You Ready?
© Patsi Krakoff, Psy.D., CBC
As opportunities for global expansion increase, so does the trend toward more diversity in the workplace. Successful companies are recruiting professionals with different backgrounds, cultures, styles and motivations. Yet this great resource presents increased possibilities for misunderstanding and cultural blunders.
It is obvious that organizations will need to expand the capacity for people to handle the challenges of working with other cultures if they are to participate successfully. Those companies that continue to struggle with domestic diversity will find themselves even more challenged.
People must move beyond simply accepting cultural identities and differences to a place where they can be leveraged for competitive advantage, superior performance and creative growth. There is tremendous creative energy and innovation that can be harnessed when people from different perspectives work successfully together.
Global business is challenging in large part because cultural habits and attitudes blind people to other ways of doing things and make them unwilling or unable to change.
The full 2,000-word article includes the following concepts:
Six dimensions to consider when doing business with a foreign culture
Different Ways of Doing Business
One Size Does Not Fit All
Leveraging Cultural Diversity
A List of Resources
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