Abstract:
Mismanagement of cultural diversity is becoming a big challenge in multinational organization likely
to damage morale, increase employee turnover, and cause significant communication problems. To
curve the problem and achieve the organization objectives such organizations should focus on
identifying the factors that hinders the organization efficiency. This research therefore, examines the
effect of cultural diversity, Gender diversity, Individualism /collectivism thinking and language
diversity on organizational effectiveness in case of United Nations Economic Commission for
Africa.The primary data was collected through adapted questionnaire while secondary data was
obtained from various sources. The proportionate to sample selection was applied to select samples.
Descriptive statistics and multi -regression was applied to analyse data. The multi-regression indicated
that culture diversity has a strong influence for organizational effectiveness. Individualism and
Collectivism thinking was found to have the better and positive influence on organizational
effectiveness followed by gender, Culture and language. The contribution of language is found to be
insignificant, so based on the results shown it can be concluded that language difference does not have
significant effect on organizational effectiveness.
