In a world that is steadily and successfully progressing towards making every sphere a part of one global platform integrating culturally diverse workforce in any industry can be seen as an enterprising endeavor. Most companies nowadays are showing dynamism and leniency in welcoming and recruiting candidates from culturally different backgrounds to garner benefits from such integration in an organizational bureaucracy. Today, metropolitan cities as well as two-tier cities that are fast turning coveted hubs for multi-national companies are witnessing major growth in population a whopping percentage of whom come from other states and belong to different communities. Integration of diverse cultures into a workplace if promoted rightly can indeed bring about a whole plethora of benefits to the organization some of which are enumerated below.

Benefits of Integrating Culturally Diverse Employees

Newer Attitudes Inculcate Greater Creativity: Working with people from diverse cultures encourages myriad attitudes some of which often seem to click better in the benefit of the organization. For instance, while many may go by the principle of “Time is Money” yet many other communities may seek to utilize time to nurture bonds even in professionalism and business. Such different opinions and principles in turn lead to increase in creativity as several solutions are provided to one query and the organization can move towards blending or bringing a harmony among the best thought solutions. Diverse ideas may give rise to newer solutions and even establish newer processes at the workplace that may be deemed progressive for the company.

Development of Lingual Skills: Being enlightened in myriad languages is always an advantages and having employees from varied cultural background definitely encourages such language skill acquisition. Whether it is through recruiting foreign nationals or welcoming candidates from varied communities within the nation into the organization such incorporation indubitably helps building relationships, understand the specific lingual nuances and enjoy the advantage of speaking and grasping the language when one travels to other states or countries.

Challenges to Integrating Culturally Different Employees

While such integration may seem to be the ideal situation it also poses some challenges to managers. Often employees from cultures different to the state of workplace may feel underrepresented or may attribute denial of promotions to be the result of their being from other communities. Many a times, such diversities may also make certain managers biased which leads to unrealistic decision-making. In order to bridge the gap and bring about the harmony and productivity from such integration it is important for managers to draw the line between performances and cultural backgrounds. Organizations should strive towards making employees and managers aware of the benefits of cultural integration so as to nurture greater competence among employees. This would bring in potential talent pools under one roof which can definitely aim towards a more progressive work culture in today’s dynamic global economy.