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From Universalism to Poly-Culturalism
Gandhi Heryanto, Management Consultant, Indonesia, Member
There used to be 2 paradigms of organizational culture:- The first is UNIVERSALISM, a belief in colorblindness and uniformity in the treatment of all people, by suppressing any individual cultural characteristics.
- As the world became more globalized, this evolved to a secondly paradigm, MULTICULTURALISM, which sort of acknowledges other cultures, preserves them, and does not demand that people subordinate themselves to one type of code or behaviour. Note that when we say or use the word 'multicultural', what we are effectively doing is segregating the cultures, even the cultures within ourselves. Multicultural implies that cultures are fixed, discrete entities that exist side by side - a kind of zoological approach to culture.
With many companies operating in a more global world than ever before, the idea of encouraging cultural fluency is taking hold. More people want to work abroad and worker...
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Polyculturalism
Amarnath Krishnaswamy, Professor, India, Member Polyculturalism is just a stepping stone… It would lead to a new "culture" within the organization.... |
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Instilling Polyculturalism in Organizations
CLAUDIUS RWODZI, HR Consultant, Zimbabwe, Member The reality in the global business today is subordination of individual cultures and precedence is given to commonly acceptable cultures by all team m... |
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Mutual Respect
Andrew Blaine, Business Consultant, South Africa, Member I have read, and tried to absorb, the blog spot and have come to the conclusion that, with respect, the missing term in all definitions is "mutual res... |
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Multiculturalism to Poly-culturalism
CLAUDIUS RWODZI, HR Consultant, Zimbabwe, Member Culture change will always be a challenge to deal with, so once organizations understand that we are now living in a global village, a lot more needs ... |
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Multi- and Poly-Uniculturalism
Andre-Ambrosio ABRAMCZUK, Teacher, Brazil, Member From my early years I was taught that "si fueris Rōmae, Rōmānō vīvitō mōre; si fueris alibī, vīvitō ... |
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Behaviour and Culture
bill kinlough, Lecturer, Member I think when we say polyculturalism and then start talking about behaviour, we could get our wires crossed; if we acknowledge all different types of c... |
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Polyculturalism in Sweden
Borje Vickberg, Sweden, Member There are, at least, two dimensions on this subject; The company you manage and the country you live in. My personal experience – Being the leader and... |
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Diversity in Culturism is Rich
Francis Joseph, United Kingdom, Member This debate is not about culture change, culture change cannot be initiated or coerced, therefore perish the thought. Multiculturism is best defined a... |
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Cultural Sensitivity as a Skill
Cruijff, Manager, China, Member Nice first post and interesting idea, Gandhi.
When reading this, I felt that Polyculturalism implies a skill within people to be flexible in thei... |
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Value-based Sensitivity to Cultural Differences
Sonny Vicente, Coach, Philippines, Member I tend to subscribe to your proposed 3rd paradigm, Polyculturalism, Ghandi and totally agree with Andrew Blaine's introduction of the ingredient of Mu... |
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From Universalism to Poly-Culturalism
K.Narayana Moorthy, HR Consultant, India, Member Whether you are an executive or an entrepreneur, the ability to bridge the cultural gaps and leverage foreign ideas and opportunities is critical to s... |
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Forget Poly Culturalism
Gian Singh, Lecturer, Malaysia, Member Since immemorial times, this theme of poly culturalism did not work and biased racism is built in the human being. Remember the Neanderthals were slau... |
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The Matter is How to Influence Majority
kenji hachiya, Business Consultant, Viet Nam, Member As a Japanese consultant who is supporting Japanese companies operating in Vietnam, the difficulty is how to blend Japanese company’s culture with the... |
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Establishing and Merging New Cultures in South Africa
Pieter Erasmus, Management Consultant, South Africa, Member Then there is a group that migrated from the Northern African continent to the Southern African continent. These guys took over by numbers the local p... |
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We Need to Embrace Polyculturalism
eddie m, Interim Manager, Kenya, Member Can’t agree more, indeed as somebody said 'the world is a small village' we need this to not only to co-exist but to add value to the 'village' organi... |
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Coexisting Reaching Project Goals
Johannes Vandeweijer, Entrepreneur, Germany, Member Finally, if there was an invasion from Mars, all cultures would stand side by side fighting for the same (project) goal. And, for this one moment in t... |
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From Multiculturalism to Poly-culturalism
Gandhi Heryanto, Management Consultant, Indonesia, Member Thanks for all great reactions. I just would like to add further about traditional model and polyculturalism.
The traditional models of understan... |
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From Multiculturalism to Poly-culturalism
K.Narayana Moorthy, HR Consultant, India, Member Thanks Mr Gandhi Heryanto, Totally I agree with your views. Yes, I agree Poly-colturalism offers a better lens of understanding cultural complexity.... |
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Poly Culturism is Just the Outcome!
Ashwini Saxena, Operations Officer, India, Member Coming from the Hindu philosophy of "Vasudheva Kutumbukam" meaning that the whole world is a family, to me poly culturism doesn't seem to be a new con... |
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Beyond Polly and Her Cultures
Brad Altemeyer, Professor, United States, Member I just wrote a short article for our new faculty publication here at South Texas College (great place for international students *cheap!) on the topic... |
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Polyculturalism
Borje Vickberg, Sweden, Member @ Gian Singh: Extremely pessimistic and cynical attitude. We have in contrast to the Neandertals, many options of co... |
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