Cultural diversity is the variety of human societies or cultures in a specific region, or in the

world as a whole. (The term is also sometimes used to refer to multiculturalism within an
organization. This article does not currently cover that alternative meaning.) There is a general
consensus among mainstream anthropologists that humans first emerged in Africa about two
million years ago [1]. Since then they have spread throughout the world, successfully adapting to
widely differing conditions and to periodic cataclysmic changes in local and global climate. The
many separate societies that emerged around the globe differed markedly from each other, and
many of these differences persist to this day .

As well as the more obvious cultural differences that exist between people, such as language,
dress and traditions, there are also significant variations in the way societies organize
themselves, in their shared conception of morality, and in the ways they interact with their
environment.

A role (sometimes spelled rôle as in French) or a social role is a set of connected behaviors, rights and
obligations as conceptualized by actors in a social situation. It is an expected or free or continuously
changing behavior and may have a given individual social status or social position. It is vital to both
functionalist and interactionist understandings of society. Social role posits the following about social
behavior:

Roles may be achieved or ascribed or they can be accidental in different situations. An achieved role is a
position that a person assumes voluntarily which reflects personal skills, abilities, and effort. An ascribed
role is a position assigned to individuals or groups without regard for merit but because of certain traits
beyond their control, (Stark 2007), and is usually forced upon a person.

Achieved statuses are ones that are acquired by doing something.  For instance, someone
becomes a criminal by committing a crime.  A soldier earns the status of a good warrior by
achievements in battle and by being brave.  A woman becomes a mother by having a baby. 
She also can acquire the status of widow by the death of her husband.  In contrast, ascribed
statuses are the result of being born into a particular family or being born male or female. 
Being a prince by birth or being the first of four children in a family are ascribed statuses.  We
do not make a decision to choose them--they are not voluntary statuses.  We do not pick the
family we are born into nor do we usually select our own gender. 
Organizational culture comprises the attitudes, experiences,
beliefs, and values of the organization, acquired through
social learning, that control the way individuals and groups
in the organization interact with one another and with parties
outside it.