This Essay Seeks to Discuss the Possible Effects of Multi-Culture on Workforce Values and Ethics and Showing How Managers Can Go About Aligning and Integrating Values and Ethics of a Multi-Cultured Workforce with Those of the Organization

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Workforce values and ethics go a long way in ensuring organizational Cohesion and effectiveness. However, in the face of globalization many managers have to deal with the effects of “multi-culture” on workforce values and ethics. This essay seeks to discuss the possible effects of Multi-culture on workforce values and ethics and showing how Managers can go about aligning and integrating values and ethics of a Multi-Cultured workforce with those of the organization. It will begin by first defining the key concepts, then discuss and finally conclude. According to Daft.M (2000), workforce values and ethics which refer to the underlying values, beliefs and principles that serve as a foundation for an organizations workforce and management system as well as the practices and behaviors that both exemplify and reinforce those basic principles. According to Brazzel.K .(1998), Organizational cohesion refers to how the organization as a complex social system works together effectively and is united in terms of many interrelated variables and globalization is basically the integration of different economies into one global market while it can be generally said that a multi cultured workforce is a workforce that comprises of three or more ethnic groups such as a combination of Africans, Indians and Americans. “ Multiculturalism in Organizations have an effect on workforce ethics and values of the organization in that especially with the growth of large-scale business organizations in that the decisions and actions of management in organizations have an increasing impact on individuals, other organizations and the community” ( Leung 2000 : p102 ). For instance, the work culture that the Chinese have of working 7 days in a week including Sunday which doesn’t apply to the Zambians because they believe that they need to rest on Sunday as well as south Korea who actually call it

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