The Influence of Culturally Diversified Workforce on a Company: Case Company Globuzzer

The purpose of this thesis is to gather information on how the multiculturalism affects the work-place environment, in details it is how multiculturalism benefits and challenges an organization, with the support from company Globuzzer. Globuzzer is a developing entrepreneur where the author worked for as an intern. The company is proud of the mission to bring people all around the globe closer by being their friends in their way to explore new cultures of different countries, help them orient their careers, and there are other upcoming projects that are on their way of executing. The thesis’s objective is also to suggest a few recommendations to better enhance the wellbeing of the diverse employees at the workplace, well manage and increase cultural diversity workforce. In another section, the thesis introduces Globuzzer, the current situation of workforce diversity management inside their company, the challenges they face when managing the diversity and how they keep them under control, the direction for further development of managing international workforces. Finally, there would be some suggestions to help them better manage the diversity, as well as to keep the challenges well under their control. The thesis uses a qualitative data collection method with a deductive approach. The thesis com-prises of two main parts, the theoretical part and empirical part. In the data collection process, both primary and secondary sources were used. Primary data were collected from the interviews between the author and the founder and HR manager at Globuzzer, and the secondary data were collected from relevant sources such as books and articles at trusted sources. The theoretical part of the thesis introduces and discusses issues, for instances the inadequacies inside an or-ganization that can be caused by the diversified workforce, key factors to promote diversity at workplace, challenges and benefits of diverse workforce in companies. The empirical part con-centrates on analyzing the data gathered from the interviews with Globuzzer founders and will come to the answers for the research questions. This research has come to a finding that there are always challenges coming along with benefits of every development. Culturally diversified workforces at workplace itself is a development, because it eliminates all the limits between humans and cultures therefore contributes to a better connection of company’s staffs and strengthens their consistency with the company. Challenges if well-managed can sometimes turn into opportunities and double the benefits. Last but not least, the thesis also proposes some solutions for better coming through the challenges and increasing the benefits of multicultural workforce in companies and organizations. Keywords: Workforce diversity, cultural diversity, diversity managemen