project management
Student Name: EHIZOKHALE Omotuemen
Student Number: H00018999
Your Classrooms:
RM module: LAUR-905
DA Classroom:
Student Support Manager (SSM) & Email Address:
Name: Ruben Salcedo eCampus Email: Ruben.Salcedo@my.ohecampus.com
Time Zone: GMT +1
How Do We Contact You by Email?
Your eCampus email address: ehizokhale.omotuemen@my.ohecampus.com
DISSERTATION ADVISOR (and eCampus email): Lu Liu (lu.liu@my.ohecampus.com)
GDI (and eCampus email): Lucía Morales (lucia.morales@my.ohecampus.com)
Faculty Manager (and eCampus email): Rory McLaughlin (Rory.McLaughlin@my.ohecampus.com) PROPOSED DISSERTATION TITLE: MANAGING CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN NIGERIAN ORGANIZATIONS
ETHICAL CHECKLIST COMPLETED (yes or no)? __no____
Specialisation Track: General _______ Finance _______ Marketing_______
(Please check as appropriate)
Other (please specify)_MANAGEMENT__________________
DATE: 27th of February, 2014
MANAGEMENT DISSERTATION PROPOSAL PROFORMA
1. Aim, objectives and feasibility of the dissertation
BACKGROUND
1.1 CULTURE
Culture according to Piddington is the total sum of both material and intellectual knowledge whereby they are able to live up to their biological and social needs and also adapt themselves to their environment (Ayisi, 1992). Culture is very important in a society such as Nigeria as the values that are filled into individual’s mind through an environment during growing up will transform one’s deeds, culture also exhibits its importance when individuals interacts with one another in the community and beyond. 1.2 CULTURAL DIVERSITY
Cultural Diversity is a range of different societies or peoples with different origins, race, ethnic group, language, nationality, sexual orientation, religions and traditions all living and interacting together(Baumuller, 2007) when there is diversity in culture people tends to think differently based on the environment they have been exposed to
Student Number: H00018999
Your Classrooms:
RM module: LAUR-905
DA Classroom:
Student Support Manager (SSM) & Email Address:
Name: Ruben Salcedo eCampus Email: Ruben.Salcedo@my.ohecampus.com
Time Zone: GMT +1
How Do We Contact You by Email?
Your eCampus email address: ehizokhale.omotuemen@my.ohecampus.com
DISSERTATION ADVISOR (and eCampus email): Lu Liu (lu.liu@my.ohecampus.com)
GDI (and eCampus email): Lucía Morales (lucia.morales@my.ohecampus.com)
Faculty Manager (and eCampus email): Rory McLaughlin (Rory.McLaughlin@my.ohecampus.com) PROPOSED DISSERTATION TITLE: MANAGING CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN NIGERIAN ORGANIZATIONS
ETHICAL CHECKLIST COMPLETED (yes or no)? __no____
Specialisation Track: General _______ Finance _______ Marketing_______
(Please check as appropriate)
Other (please specify)_MANAGEMENT__________________
DATE: 27th of February, 2014
MANAGEMENT DISSERTATION PROPOSAL PROFORMA
1. Aim, objectives and feasibility of the dissertation
BACKGROUND
1.1 CULTURE
Culture according to Piddington is the total sum of both material and intellectual knowledge whereby they are able to live up to their biological and social needs and also adapt themselves to their environment (Ayisi, 1992). Culture is very important in a society such as Nigeria as the values that are filled into individual’s mind through an environment during growing up will transform one’s deeds, culture also exhibits its importance when individuals interacts with one another in the community and beyond. 1.2 CULTURAL DIVERSITY
Cultural Diversity is a range of different societies or peoples with different origins, race, ethnic group, language, nationality, sexual orientation, religions and traditions all living and interacting together(Baumuller, 2007) when there is diversity in culture people tends to think differently based on the environment they have been exposed to
References: Baumuller, M (2007), Managing cultural diversity: an empirical examination of culture networks and organizational structures as governance mechanism in multinational corporations, Peter Lang. Easterby-Smith, M., Thorpe, R., Jackson, P. (2012), Management research, 4th edition, SAGE Publications ltd. Gong, Y. (1998), Managing cultural diversity in hospitality industry [Received: 20th January, 2014] (Accessed: 20th of January, 2014) Hamedani, M.T Infoplease (2014), Nigeria, http://www.infoplease.com/country/nigeria.html (Accessed 21st of January, 2014) Jackson, S Kathayat, S. (2012), Cultural and religious diversity at the workplace: experiences by some Nepalese employees in Norway [online], Available from: brage.bibsys.no/misjon/retrieve/711/sutthasinee%20kathayat.pdf (Accessed: 22th of January, 2014) Korjala, V Klenke, K. (2008), Qualitative research in the study of leadership, Emerald group publishing Silverman, D Leven and Sjoberg (2004), Managing a culturally diverse organization: case studies of stocckholm public dental service and Fittja health center [Received: 25th January, 2014] (Accessed: 28th of January, 2014) Neves, J., Mele, D Ogbonna, C. (2010), cultural issues about doing business in Nigeria: case study for THURMO OY [online], Available from: http://www.theseus.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/16512/Chidiebere_Ogbonna.pdf?sequence=1 (Accessed: 22 January 2014) Oliveira, M