With globalization and the increasing diversity of the workforce, organizations are faced with the challenge of effectively managing multicultural teams. Understanding how employee engagement and job satisfaction are influenced by multicultural factors is crucial for organizations to create inclusive work environments that foster productivity and wellbeing. This literature review aims to explore the relationship between employee engagement, job satisfaction, and multi-cultural workplaces. It examines relevant studies and provides insights into the key factors, challenges, and strategies for enhancing employee engagement and job satisfaction in multicultural workplaces. The findings will shed light upon the author's research area on the factors influencing employee engagement and job satisfaction in multicultural work environments and contribute to a deeper understanding of cross-cultural dynamics in the workplace.
Aspects of Mindful Leadership Upon the Psychological Health of Employees in an Intercultural Context
(2023)
Across the globe, organizations are in the midst of rapid transformation. Immigration, digitalization and the push for sustainability are just to name a few. Organizational structures are being pushed for more agility, co-opetition, integration, tenable and resilient workplaces. Social structures of companies are being reformed and the weight of cooperation and integration lays upon the leaders and employees. But from this weight of integration what psychological effects does it play upon the migrant and domestic employees to be engaged at work? What role does the leadership style impact the mental health and engagement in the cross-cultural workplace? Previous work has shown the importance of workplace integration, however, the impact of the mental health of domestic employees needs more attention from the scholars in this new context. The object of the research is to define the connection of mindful leadership and the psychological health of employees within a cross-cultural workplace and to develop strategies to improve workplace engagement.
