Multinational diversity management

Multinational diversity management focuses on localizing diversity interventions across branches of a multinational company. In this context, GDM in its more pure form relates to coordination of multiple domestic diversity interventions with a view to giving them global coherence (see Ozbilgin Tatli, 2008 Sippola 8c Smale, 2007 Wending 8c Palma-Rivas, 2000). 

The 1998 PIRC report gives an interpretation of social and community reporting . In PIRC s view, the term refers to reporting on a diversity of issues in terms of matters such as employment policies, business ethics, charitable donations and community involvement. In multinational companies, this area is further highlighted by a concern in the public domain for companies to make clear their position on issues such as human rights and assistance with the management of developing countries resources. 

Because the diversity challenges of every organization differ, approaches to address them vary as well. Here again, the need to be responsive to different national cultures may explain why multinational organizations have tended to leave much of the implementation of diversity programs to managers at national... 

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