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" In the workforce, this means creating a spirit of cooperation and sharing to get the designated work done and of a quantity and quality that facilitates the company's goals. "Thus, the new workplace structures - in response to the increasingly multicultural workforce - should focus on cooperation and team goals rather than on individual change. Further, communication plays a key role in working with others to achieve company goals, and thus, in the successful corporate shift to a multicultural, cooperative philosophy."
However, a lot of companies are now counting on the diversity of the emerging new world order to be addressed at the academic level, before people emerge into the workforce as adults. "Multiculturalism in education attempts to resolve the conflict between "mainstream" and "other" by preserving individual identity rather than erasing it. Most educational theorists agree that multiculturalism incorporates two features: the promotion of mutual understanding and respect for ethnic, religious, gender, class, language, and age differences; and the achievement of equal access to economic power."
Power struggles amongst workforce teams can jeopardize the goals of the organization, and impact its bottom line. No matter what the school of thought is on social, political, religious or other cultural traditions or customs, within the workforce the organization's overall goals must be made the focus by all employees within the organization. "Affective or interpersonal conflict can destroy a team; however, proper resolution of substantive procedural issues lessens interpersonal friction. It is important to tackle interpersonal problems head on and attempt to sort out the sources differences."
While there is still a long road ahead of us, the world generally seems to embrace the idea that we live together in a multicultural and diverse world, and we celebrate that in many ways. However, there continues to be resistance to the emergence of a new world order that would strive for economic and social and political opportunities for all people. Education is, again, the key to bringing about the much needed changes will resolve the differences that keep us from celebrating one another's cultural and traditional differences. We must continue to provide the resources and opportunities to emerging third world nations to help them grow into the environments within which they find themselves...
Again, education is the key to resolving multicultural differences.
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