In today's society, developing multicultural awareness is essential in order to learn the range of cultural similarities and differences reflected in the workforce. In either case, however, culture will continue to influence a worker's behavior with or without management awareness. The current trend toward multicultural awareness within the work place does and will continue to have a great impact on the training and development of such a diverse workforce. In addition, behaviors can be interpreted with the person's culture in mind. Culture has provided a rationale for unifying and defining groups of people as well as individuals.
Culture is located within the person.
Like traits, culture provides a flexible disposition toward a perspective that changes from time to time, situation to situation, and most importantly - person to person. Managers need to identify a worker's cultural disposition to communicate accurately and appropriately. Awareness of the multicultural implications within the work place provides a starting point to build upon. Awareness of cultural differences leads to increased knowledge about the workforce. Knowing the employees and their background helps to increase the overall productivity of the company.