Explain why fostering cultural diversity is important and discuss how organizations can overcome the challenges of cultural diversity.

Fostering cultural diversity is expected to be one of the principal challenges facing the leaders or organizations for years to come.How leaders respond to this challenge will determine the effectiveness of culturally diverse teams,an organization's communication process,and employees' personal development.The challenges of cultural diversity include communication difficulties,intraorganizational conflict,and turnover.To overcome these challenges,organizations must understand that a diverse workforce will embody different perspectives and approaches to work and must truly value variety of opinion and insight.Managers must recognize both the learning opportunities and the challenges that the expression of different perspectives presents for the organization.The organizational culture must create an expectation of high standards of performance and ethics from everyone.It also must stimulate personal development,encourage openness,make workers feels valued and have a clearly stated and widely understood mission.