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§ Enhanced risk of discrimination
§ Management time and cost due to employee complaints
Primary Subject 4: Ways to help multicultural workforces work well together
- Take time to understand one another
- Cultural awareness workshops
- Seminars
- Online Tools
- Recognize different cultures behavior patterns to ensure information isn’t being missed
Sources:
1. Why Diverse Teams Create Better Work by Adam Vaccaro (2014)
http://www.inc.com/adam-vaccaro/diversity-and-performance.html
2. Okoro, E. & Washington, M. (2012). Workforce diversity and organizational
communication: Analysis of human capital performance and productivity. Journal of Diversity
Management.,7(1), 57-62
3. How a Multicultural Workforce Can Affect Teamwork & Communications in Large
Companies by Tara Duggan. (2014) http://yourbusiness.azcentral.com/multicultural-workforce-
can-affect-teamwork-communications-large-companies-25109.html
4. Intercultural Communication: The Disadvantages of a Multicultural Workforce by Sara
Nguyen. http://nguthith.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-disadvantages-of-multicultural.html