Cultural Diversity In International Organizations

The integration of cultural diversity, knowledge, innovation management and coordination among team members is the challenge for consulting companies to do business internationally. Consider the culture aspect, consulting company with their overseas offices could be a multicultural team. According to Schein (2004), all the organisations including consulting companies have their own internal organisational cultures. Such as decision-making style, specific rules, communication style and so forth. Yet, at the start of establishing the multinational consulting companies, the multi-culture is a problem as employees are from different cultural and educational backgrounds.

In response to team members with different cultural backgrounds, a flexible mechanism for the team management is suggested. The following example shows an opposite situation.

The following example illustrates the cultural diversity of organisational management. Warner (2014) states that Confucianism still remains a significant influence factor in Chinese daily life. In organisation management practice, the faith to be loyal to the …show more content…
Consultants convey the new knowledge to their clients and innovation of companies will also be obstacles. Many consultants use existing knowledge to help their clients to solve problems. Whilst clients could not accept that the knowledge of consulting companies is older than theirs (Sturdy, 2006). Then, monitor and mobilise employees as well as improve the team cohesion are the difficulties for multinational consulting firms. In some cases, when consulting companies cooperate with international clients, they need overseas offices to assist them. How to mobilise employees and coordinate them as a group seem to be more challenge. Whether using one-firm management method or decentralised management approach is available to be considered by multinational consulting