GEB4220CBE Section 01CBE Managing a Diverse Workforce – Cultural Report

GEB4220CBE Section 01CBE Managing a Diverse Workforce – Cultural Report

Scenario

Your company is planning on expanding its offices overseas. In anticipation of your management leading a more culturally diverse team, you have been asked to create a cultural report. Within the report, you will need to include a table or chart that lists Hofstede’s cultural dimensions and their connection to diversity management and explain the role and value of cultural and social intelligence.

Instructions

First, create a table or chart to include in the cultural report that:

Next, develop a cultural report that:

  • Defines the concepts of cultural and social intelligence with details on similarities and differences. How are they related, and what sets them apart?
  • Discusses the impact that social intelligence can have on success in the workplace. How will social intelligence be important to your company as they expand their offices overseas?
  • Be sure the cultural report displays proper grammar, spelling, punctuation, sentence structure, and credible sources cited in APA format.

Requirements: 4 pages not including cover and reference page

 

Answer preview

Leading a culturally diverse team requires cultural competence, which informs the workforce’s interests, preferences, and needs. Geert Hofstede established a theory of communications informed by its macroculture (Favaretto et al., 2016). The six dimensions of national culture established in Hofstede’s culture include individualism/collectivism, uncertainty avoidance, power distance, long/short-term orientation, masculinity/femininity, and indulgence/restraint (Beugelsdijk & Welzel, 2018). Understanding the cultural difference overseas in those dimensions is important in diversity management. A manager who can effectively interact with culturally diverse persons in a different cultural context is more

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