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Diversity for many multinational companies

For the past ten years, I have worked for many multinational companies some big and some small. One of the companies that I have worked for is Milio International limited where I worked as the person in charge of business development. This position gave me the chance to mingle with managers and leaders from other parts of the world therefore giving me the much needed experience. Some of the places that I have travelled to while working at Milio International Limited are Middle East, Russia, Caspian region, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Turkmenistan and Georgia. Working at Milio International also gave me the opportunity to travel to management seminars in places like London among others. These meetings brought together managers from different corners of the world and gave them a platform on which to share their experiences. Other than sharing, such meetings also gave managers the chance to brainstorm and come up with ways of solving different challenges that they face at their places of work.

Although many countries that I visited while working at Milio international are geographically located very close to one another, each has its own unique cultural and historical background. These trips abroad opened my eyes and taught me how to look at things from a broader perspective and also how to embrace values even if they are different from the ones am used to. Although we have few employees at Milio compared to other companies in the gas sector, we have always done our best to maintain the profitability of the company. Before joining Milio, the company was performing poorly and commanded a little share of the market compared to its competitors. For the time I have been there, I have helped the company grow and perform better as witnessed by the continued growth of operations at the business development department. The team I worked with at Milio was made up of people from more that ten nationalities and we were always exchanging ideas and experiences therefore enriching one another. Some of my most memorable times at the company are when we would hold meetings to brainstorm the way forward whenever there was a problem.

After working for Milio International for some time, I joined Arxiel Carbonexis where I worked for two years. At Arxiel, I mainly worked in carbon abatement projects undertaken by the company in several countries some of the countries that I travelled to while working at Arxiel are Pakistan, Georgia and Azerbaijan. These trips abroad introduced me to diverse cultures as I would mingle with different people in my line of duty. After working for Arxiel for two years, I moved to Socar Georgia where I worked as the chief executive officer. Unlike all the previous companies that I had worked for, Socar is relatively a larger company based on the number of employees and customers the company has. Working at Socar has opened my eyes on how to work with people from different cultural backgrounds. In my previous job, i mostly worked with people from the same racial and cultural background since the companies served local customers only. As a result, I faced some initial challenges when I started working for Socar since the company has operations in more than one country and has employees from all over the world.

I left my mother country in 2009 and travelled to Georgia to take up my position at Socar. Like everyone else, working far away in a foreign country proved to be quite a challenge since i had to leave the people and culture that I was used and adapt to a totally new environment. Although I had met people from different countries in my previous jobs, travelling to Georgia was a totally new experience as it taught me how to respect diverse views and cultures. When I came to Georgia, I found that some of things we used to do back at my mother country were considered immoral and so I had to adapt to the local way of life.

Other than working at Milio International, I have also gained a lot of experience in cross-cultural and diverse environment through my membership at the Young Presidents Organization (YPO). This organization is made of young managers and leaders for all over the world and they meet after some time to share their experiences and discuss how they can make the world a better place. Currently, the Young Presidents Organization has members from 110 countries. When they are not meeting, the members of the YPO club always keep in touch with each other via their internal network system. As a way of promoting diversity and global thinking among its members, the club holds its meetings in different countries and all its members are consider themselves as global citizens. Among all other values, the Young Presidents Organization embraces diversity more since it’s the only way through which people from different cultures and social backgrounds can coexist peacefully. Every year during the Young Presidents Organizations meetings, key figures from all over the world are invited to share their experiences and advice the young leaders on how to make the world a better service. Some of the world leaders who have been invited to address the Young Presidents Organization meetings are the former United States secretary of state Colin Powel and queen Rania of Jordan. Such meetings serve to enhance diverse views of the world among the attendants.

During my free time, I like travelling a lot and each year, I take my vacations at a different country. In the past, I have travelled to more than forty different countries so far ranging for Cuba to Australia among others. Other than taking vacations, I have also attended several activities in different countries like the 2002 FIFA world cup in Korea and Japan as riding on bulls in Pamplona during the St. Fermine fiesta. All these experiences have served to increase my global thinking and improve how I related with people from different social and cultural backgrounds. Although I have been quite been successful at Milio international, I don’t plan to spend all my life may move to a bigger company. The employees I manage at Milio are few compared to what I am likely to find in bigger companies. This means that I will have to come up with new and innovative management styles so as to remain competitive. Such new management skills will include management skills in multicultural environments.

Due to increased competition and need to increase profits, many modern companies have operations in more that one countries. This has presented managers with a new challenge since many of them are used to managing people from a uniform cultural background. Through all my past and current jobs, I have met and worked with people from all over the world. These experiences have made me appreciate different views and cultural practices therefore giving me a global view in everything I undertake.

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