Cultural Audits

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This paper describes the need, in today's global environment, for managing diversity and bridging cultural differences and explains that that need is best met by integrating cultural audits into the human resources department. The paper explains that the objective of a cultural audit is to provide an overview of the strengths and weaknesses of the work-force and that a growing need for cultural audits exist, particularly, in the United States.

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"The objectives of a cultural audit are to "determine...'climate', establish how the current status (of a department) aligns with its vision, provide a planning tool, (and) provide a baseline for future comparisons." More than an assessment, of course, cultural audits tend to define (and possibly remove or lower) barriers due to cultural, gender, ethnic, or language differences (to cite only a few). Cultural audits, therefore, are established to enhance the work environment, to understand the needs, the similarities and differences, the ease or difficulty of working together. If cross-civilizational issues do present barriers, the cultural audit should be able to pin-point problem areas which can then be addressed."

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• Analytical Essay # 132255 : "A Democratic Audit of China"

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