Global companies and the importance of cultural diversity management in diversity management in the global companies

Diversity management, arised as a result of demographic changes on the workforce at the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s, has become a major field of study in the area of organizational behavior and management as well as its positive effects on the success of the companies especially global companies are realized. Notwithstanding diversity management has become a popular concept and it is attractive for not only social scientists or managers but also ordinary people who meet diverse people in daily life at the present time. It is needed to be made a certain number of regulations by both employees individually and the managers of the companies in order the diversities in the companies to be understood, to minimize the negative effects of diversities and to maximize the positive effects by managing those diversities effectively. In this thesis; global companies and diversity management in the global companies, the developments which bring the concept of diversity management, the approaches developed for effective diversity management and some suggestions.