The businesses have changed drastically over the last few years. With the emergence of globalization in India and many other countries, the whole world has become one family as far as business transactions are concerned. Many transnational corporate have their branch offices and back offices in Asian countries like India due to the reasons like computer literacy, knowledge of English, zeal to be associated with the multinational corporations, etc. It has opened many opportunities for the citizens of India to work either in the back offices of such multinational companies or to attain a work visa to go and work in their head offices located in American and European countries. This workforce diversity has become an issue of concern for the leaders and managers as to amass the mindset of people coming from various backgrounds and energize them for the common goal has become a big task. In the present research, the aim is to study the workplace diversity in today’s scenario and the role of leaders to cope up with it in order to achieve organizational goals. The research is based on the secondary data, literature review and the study of the output and productivity of few transnational companies.

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Keywords: European Countries, Workforce Diversity, Organizational Goals, Transnational Companies.