Leaders with Managing Cultural Diversity and Communication

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Nayika Kamales
Helena Knorr

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This research has an objective. To study cultural diversity is an interesting topic to study because it could bring a lot of benefits comes to the workplace such as creativity, innovation, higher performance, lower rate of turn over (retention) and decreasing conflicts between people. As a result, people would be happy to work together with understanding every cultures or differences. Therefore, as a leader, leadership skill are very important tools to manage and can cause a lot of advantages. In this research paper would present the important of diversity and the obstacles for diversity in the workplace. It also includes the recognizing of culture differences to increase more understanding in all cultures.

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Kamales, N. ., & Knorr, H. . (2019). Leaders with Managing Cultural Diversity and Communication. Asia Pacific Journal of Religions and Cultures, 3(1), 63–72. Retrieved from https://so06.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/ajrc/article/view/242052
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