Multicultural Behavior and Global Business Environments

Chapter 9

Multicultural Paradigm Management Systems and Cultural Diversity Models

Without multiple sources of knowledge, there will be no power to shed light on our minds.

Chapter Objectives

When you have read this chapter you should be able to:

• develop conceptual skills to understand different philosophies and practices of cultural diversity models and multicultural paradigm management systems,

• identify the three groups of cultural diversity models,

• indicate the principal concerns of multicultural paradigm management systems, and

• describe how multiculturalism can enhance multinational organizational operations.

Introduction

Radical political changes and the free flow of information characterized the early 1990s on the socioeconomic maps of ...