From Universalism to Poly-Culturalism

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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.

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		Polyculturalism Amarnath Krishnaswamy, Professor, India, Member
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		Instilling Polyculturalism in Organizations CLAUDIUS RWODZI, HR Consultant, Zimbabwe, Member
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		Moving from Organizational Multiculturalism to Polyculturalism Jaap de Jonge, Editor, Netherlands
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		Mutual Respect Andrew Blaine, Business Consultant, South Africa, Member
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		Multiculturalism to Poly-culturalism CLAUDIUS RWODZI, HR Consultant, Zimbabwe, Member
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		Multi- and Poly-Uniculturalism Andre-Ambrosio ABRAMCZUK, Teacher, Brazil, Member
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		Behaviour and Culture bill kinlough, Lecturer, Member
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		Polyculturalism in Sweden Borje Vickberg, Sweden, Premium Member
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		Diversity in Culturism is Rich Francis Joseph, United Kingdom, Member
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		Cultural Sensitivity as a Skill Cruijff, Manager, China, Member
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		Value-based Sensitivity to Cultural Differences Sonny Vicente, Coach, Philippines, Member
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		From Universalism to Poly-Culturalism K.Narayana Moorthy, HR Consultant, India, Member
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		Forget Poly Culturalism Gian Singh, Lecturer, Malaysia, Member
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		Coexisting Reaching Project Goals Johannes Vandeweijer, Entrepreneur, Germany, Member
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		From Multiculturalism to Poly-culturalism Gandhi Heryanto, Management Consultant, Indonesia, Premium Member
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		From Multiculturalism to Poly-culturalism K.Narayana Moorthy, HR Consultant, India, Member
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		Poly Culturism is Just the Outcome! Ashwini Saxena, Operations Officer, India, Member
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		Beyond Polly and Her Cultures Brad Altemeyer, Professor, United States, Member
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		Co-existing Reaching Project Goals: Mutual Respect K.Narayana Moorthy, HR Consultant, India, Member
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		Polyculturalism Borje Vickberg, Sweden, Premium Member
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