In today’s competitive corporate environment, cultural diversity significant ly impacts a firm’s profitability. The workplace is an environment wher e people with different cultures can meet to collaborate and support the values and aims of the corporation. The current research is aimed at investigating the role of management in handling cultural diversity in the workplace. The qualitative research methodology is adopted to review the literature to address the research problem. The researcher reviewed the literature from 2019 to 2022. The findings have show n that cultural diversity could increase the performance of a business by bringing creativity, innovation and other benefic ial elements to the firm. Though, it has certain drawbacks that can be addressed by appropriate handling by management. The management should devise proper strategies to promote tolerance, acceptance and respect for cultural diversity.
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