Intercultural challenges facing a cross-cultural workplace: case study a set of Egyptian companies
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2018-06
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Ecole des Hautes Etudes commerciales
Abstract
During the past decades, international trade of goods and services has been growing
fast. Development of export trade has been highly regarded by both corporations and
governments, due to its significant macroeconomic and microeconomic benefits, many
companies are now operating in more than one country. This crossing of geographical
boundaries by the companies gave the birth of multicultural organizations where employees
from different countries with diverse cultural backgrounds are working together.
Effective knowledge and use of cross cultural diversity at workplace can provide an
effective source of experience and innovative thinking to enhance the competitive position of
the organization; in this regard it is the role of managers to promote creativity and motivation,
by being flexible to different cultures’ attitudes/behaviors and knowing the employees’
Cultural Differences which mainly serve at indicating the intercultural challenges that are
existing at the multicultural workplace.
In this perspective, the current research was undertaken in order to investigate and
indicate the main intercultural challenges facing a multicultural workplace
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International Trade, Multicultural organizations, Cultural background, Cross cultural diversity, Intercultural challenges, Multicultural workplace