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Implication of Globalization on Organization Culture, Kenyan Experience

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The mere mention of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) adopted by world leaders in the year 2000 and set to be achieved by 2015, provide concrete, numerical benchmarks for tackling extreme poverty in its many dimensions. This brings into focus changes, experiences and opportunities organizations and work force can grasp for effective organizational cultural change and development. Most of the developing countries in the world and Africa in specific are adopting a global and modern outlook in management of organization so as to achieve (MDG). Globalization for instance has accelerated integration of all markets domestic and foreign as a result there is no organization that wants to lag behind but instead embrace the concept of globalization. In the long run it enhances competition, high performance, creativity and innovation at work place. On the other hand, by adopting a global outlook, organizations become more aware of their connection to employees of other organizations across the globe. This intensify worldwide social relation and interdependency This paper focuses on the concepts of globalization, its dimensions and implications on organization cultural change and development for achieving millennium development goals. Moreover the paper urges that realization of millennium development goals entail enormous changes that have implication on organization culture and work force within a short span of time in place.
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