Contents

• Introduction & Background
• Working title
• Literature review and academic context
• Research questions
• Research methodology
• Ethical considerations
• Any special resources or access required
• Proposed action plan
• Conclusion
• References
• Appendix

Description

The onset of globalization has witnessed a wide shift in demographic profile of workforce within the organizations. And, perhaps, in this purview organizations are also coming on terms with cultural diversity at their workplace. Thus, nowadays, organizations are quite vigilant to rope in culturally diverse management for their workforce as cornerstone of their policies to attract and retain the best talent from all around the globe.
In this framework of rigid competition between multinational companies to acquire best talent, it is highly significant that how company deals with their employees/workforce coming from different backgrounds and cultures. Henceforth a key that question arises is, “How do companies manage cultural diversity in the workplace?’ At more fundamental one can question, “How do managers manage cultural diversity in workplace?” Early, 2006 pg 103)
IBM is one such multinational organization that has to effectively deal with cultural diversity to maintain its global existence. IBM demarcates itself very strongly in enduring successful cultural diverse environment in its policy statement. Ted Child (vice president of workforce diversity at IBM) proudly identifies cultural diversity management at IBM with issues concerning to cultural awareness and acceptance, ethnic minorities and multilingualism as key components in IBM’s global workforce diversity challenges.
This research will incorporate an exploratory study on IBM way to manage culture diversity at workplace. For this first a critical literature review will be conducted to understand the concept. Global Policies of IBM will be taken to know about IBM vision. Once having a detailed perspective IBM Pune will be encircled as case study to narrow down the research towards the research aims and objectives