The perceived influence of culture and ethnicity on the communicative dynamics of the united...

H. Harris. 2001. Business communication quarterly 64, no. 2:105-113.

This "exploratory study ... examines the perceived influence of culture and ethnicity on the communicative dynamics of the United Nations Secretariat. My intention is to fill two major voids in organizational communication

literature by explicitly connecting culture and ethnicity to communication and investigating managerial perceptions with regard to communicative dynamics in an organization founded on the precepts of cultural and ethnic diversity. It is hoped that the study's findings may provide communicative insights for managers in corporate America currently grappling with increasingly diverse organizational members.... Whether at the lower echelons of corporate America or the managerial levels, organizational diversity, particularly as it relates to culture and ethnicity, is no longer a prediction but a reality."