The Effect Of Cultural Diversty On Organizational Effectivenss In Case Of United Nations Economic Commission For Africa

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.