Shared Knowledge and Schemes Created by a Set of People

The word "culture" is very important to everyone. It is an integral part of everyone's identity. "Culture" does not have a generally accepted definition, but a particularly clear definition is that "culture is a way of understanding, interpreting, expressing and responding to the social reality around them Shared knowledge and programs created by the group ") Culture encompasses various social and moral values ​​that are part of society.

Lederach (1995) defines culture as "shared knowledge and programs created by groups of people to recognize, interpret, express and respond to social reality around them" . This cultural definition explains it as a general way people think or sense things in the environment. In this way, culture shows a series of norms including ideas, motivations, impulse responses and emotions of self-imagery, thus affecting people's connections and behavior (Muir, 2007). Nigeria is the largest single geographical unit in West Africa with about 250 ethnic groups, the norms and values ​​of each major tribe vary widely. Gender is an important part of diversity, as Nigeria does not account for half of the population, half of them are women. Most of these women live below the limit of poverty and have received little education. , Capital base. (Izugbara and Ukwayi, 2002). There is little or no research on the equality and diversity of companies in Nigeria (Omair 2008, Jamali et al. 2005). In addition to the many goodwill efforts to bridge the space for men and women in education, economic activities, political participation, Nigeria is also impressed to reduce gender-based violence, gender discrimination and women's rights beautification It also raises measures. "In fact, after years of military rule, Nigeria is still experiencing a difficult political and economic transition.The growth of the violent common corruption legacy, non-oil private economy is small, Although the community restricts independence, Nigeria is still a society rich in cultural languages, religion, ethnicity and political diversity "(Obayelu and Ogunlade 2006) 2 pages