Abstract With the development of globalization, the employee’s diversity in Chinese organizations is inevitable. Effective diversity management has a strategic significance for the organizations. From the perspective of trait activation theory and organizational context model, this study examines the relationship between employee’s perceived diversity management and their performance with data collected from 241 employees in 98 international enterprises. The results show that perceived diversity management based on learning-efficiency paradigm has positive impact on employees’ task performance and adaptive performance in cross-cultural situation, culture intelligence functions as a partial mediator between perceived diversity management and employee’s task performance, and as a mediator between perceived diversity management and employee’s adaptive performance. The research enriches the theories of diversity management and provides useful practical implications for enterprises to improve diversity management.
