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In the contemporary, globalization continues to increase rapidly and this has given rise to diversity within organizations. This has necessitated leaders to nurture and advance a cultural mindset that permits diversity to success devoid of risking the extent of productivity and output. Devoid of this, personnel can constantly be in conflict with each other, and this can give rise to inefficiency, increase in turnover and lower performance and productivity (Gupta and Govindarajan, 2002). The purpose of this paper is to address the development and carrying out of a cultural mindset amongst a diverse global group of employees.Integrating Varied Perspectives in Dynamic Environments to Lead Successfully in a Culturally Diverse Society
In order to become a successful leader in a culturally diverse society, it is necessary to undertake the integration of varied perspectives in dynamic settings. One of the ways is acknowledging that indeed there exist differences in perspective and understanding amongst the employees. Another approach is leading by example. As a leader, one of the ways to integrate such differing perspectives is by embracing the different values, beliefs and principles. This will instigate the different parties to integrate the varying perspectives to those of their own. Empathy is also another approach that is vital and this takes into account being sympathetic of the fact that people have different perspectives of their...
The behaviors that are exhibited by the leader set the tone on how the employees will follow. Therefore, by exemplifying a behavior that embraces diversity in thoughts, perspectives and culture, it paves way for other employees to be able to corporate varied perspectives in the dynamic setting.
Negotiation Strategies the Inclusive Leader Could Apply to Craft a Common Cultural Mindset
In order to craft a common cultural mindset, the inclusive leader could apply different negotiation strategies. To begin with, one of the efficacious strategies to make use of is identifying conflicting and contradictory standpoints. This is necessary to comprehend the magnitude to which the different parties are conflicting in terms of their standpoints. The following negotiation strategy is to distinguish and accept the diversity in thoughts and espousing the different perspectives. After that, as an inclusive leader, the subsequent phase is to embark on congregating and uniting considerations so as to come to an inclusive process of decision making. These meetings and sessions ought to be designed in a way that every person is given a voice, the dissimilar aspects of incongruence and agreement are defined, and thereafter shifting to deliberating and negotiating resolutions to the areas of disparity (Naude et al., 2015).
This is purposed to help in shifting the parties from a point…
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The solutions are numerous and more diversified. Knowledge is crucial for business success. There are two types of knowledge: explicit or tacit. The explicit type is easily codified, stored and transmitted to other individuals. As opposed to the former, the tacit one is embedded in people. The size of the tacit knowledge is proportional to the diversity of the workplace. Therefore, organizations face the increasing challenge today of finding ways