**5. Recommendations for diversity management in the organization**

All respondents agreed on the necessity of and confirmed the fact of taking into account foreign workers' special social and cultural competences in the organization's management practices. Among the most serious management challenges related to staff diversity, there were organizing internal communications (poor knowledge of the Russian language by foreign workers, lack of work contact with the employees who are the citizens of the Russian Federation), increasing the loyalty of foreign workers. Among the measures being taken, there were organizing trainings of foreign workers in the Russian language and culture (required by the Russian legislation).

Eight respondents (10%) proved to be familiar with diversity management methods and cross-cultural management. However, no special events aimed to create competences and understand sociocultural diversity challenges which were held in the organization. The val-

All the respondents noted the need to deepen professional knowledge in the field of diversity

Eight respondents, which were competent in diversity management, note that competences are important for managers in organizations with sociocultural diversity of staff (**Table 3**).

**No. Group of competences Competences Respondents (%)**

account sociocultural competences

• Openness and interest in the new

circumstances of another culture

• Controlling and assessing sociocultural diversity

100 100 100

100 75

• Motivation and stimulation of sociocultural

• Flexibility and respect for other people and

• The ability to adjust themselves to the changing

• The ability to act successfully in a new cultural

• Style of communication, taking into account sociocultural diversity of the staff

taking into account the sociocultural diversity of

• Knowledge about the national characteristics 100

ues of sociocultural diversity were not part of the organization's strategy.

1 Managerial competence • Recruitment and selection of staff, taking into

of staff

competencies

other cultures

context

the staff

3 Communicative competence • The ability and desire to communicate effectively,

**Table 3.** Culture and values competence of managers in international investment projects.

management and cross-cultural management.

80 Human Capital and Competences in Project Management

2 Basic social competence (soft skills)

4 Knowledge of national

culture (hard cultural skills)

**4. Culture and values competence of managers**

Based on the labor legislation, experience of managing sociocultural diversity in leading multinational companies and research into diversity management practices in the Sverdlovsk region, we recommend taking into account the following measures to develop diversity management practices:


**Figure 2.** Sociocultural diversity in HR management system.

