multicultural workforce
- noun
- /ˌmʌltiˈkʌltʃərəl ˈwɜrkˌfɔrs/
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fuerza laboral multicultural
- Training programs are necessary to support a multicultural workforce in understanding and appreciating diverse cultures.
Examples
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We must build a multicultural workforce to respond to the needs of our diverse population.
Academic text (1994) -
One of the contributing factors to an increasing multicultural workforce is that many international students seek employment in the United States.
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This multicultural workforce has career development and counseling needs that are very different from the established norm.
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At least three of its strategies have led to this success: the power of and mutual respect within its multicultural workforce, its ability to be heard by the community while effectively communicating policy issues to policymakers, and its practice in intermeshing justice and sustainability issues.
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To thrive in a global market, it is essential to create a multicultural workforce that values diverse perspectives.
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A multicultural workforce can drive innovation by bringing together different ideas and cultural backgrounds.
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Morphology
The meaning 'a group of employees from different cultural backgrounds' is directly and compositionally derived from 'multicultural' (related to several cultures) modifying 'workforce' (employees). This adjective+noun pattern is a basic, cross-linguistically common construction, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Multicultural workforce comes from the simple picture of a workplace where people from different countries and traditions work together, with multicultural meaning many cultures and workforce meaning the group of workers. That's why the phrase now refers to 'a group of employees from different cultural backgrounds'.