Cultural Obstacle In Interdisciplinarity

Management, and the ability to lead and cultivate a team of individuals who strive to meet targets, work hard, and have loyalty to their company is an extremely difficult task by any standards. It requires a unique kind of person who is both demanding and rewarding, who can handle confrontation and who holds people to reasonable standards while encouraging teamwork and cooperation. This alone makes running a company, and finding upper and middle managers to facilitate plans and goals a worthy task, but with the advent of fast paced globalization, companies are now having to handle not only their internal management styles, but the management styles of a variety of different countries and cultures.

“With every endeavor, know the appropriate balance of passion and reason.” (Cavlovic 2005). Interpersonal communication is not an option. By overcoming the following barriers your road together through communication will overcome any negative trails. If we teach ourselves to listen to understand instead

This can be easily recognized in the world of sports journalism. Sports, in and of itself, are not very important the the grand scheme of things. However, it can be a common thread unifying people of different genders, religions, nationalities, and generations to one common passion. Reading and writing in academics amalgamates us in a similar method. Sir Francis Bacon eloquently once stated, “Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.” From this experience, I was truly able to weigh and consider the way communication in academic settings can similarly destroy differences and

It is no problem to glance at someone on the street and notice how they have altered their bodies in order to look more presentable. Nowadays this is “normal” to most people. Many women perform a daily routine in the morning in order to be their finest selves, but why are they doing this? Their answer may be to create a positive picture of themselves, but deep down the source of their daily routines is to be portrayed as normal in the eyes of others within their culture. This is an example of disciplinary body practices, which are “routines, rules, and practices” which help to maintain the body (Women’s Voices Feminist Visions, p. 193). They come at a cost, which may include time, money, and effort and these practices are influenced by various sources, such as television shows and commercials, magazines, social media, and many more. Both culture and globalization are directly connected to the influence of these practices and many people believe that if they do not conform to these practices, they will be seen as “odd.” I have experienced this myself because of my daily practices. Some examples of these disciplinary practices include shaving legs, styling hair, putting on make-up, surgeries, piercing body parts, tanning, and many more, which all come at a cost.

The textbook for this course defines communications as the process of mutual creation of meaning. Mr. Chaney expressed that “Communication plays a major role in his career, because this ability allows him to communicate with coworkers and clients to complete task”. His value on communication connects to the text book because it displays that

“Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.” This quote by Rollo May demonstrates the importance of communication, it is how people get to know each other and grow closer as a community, or a family. Can you be a community without communication? Communities are made of people from all around the world, people with different backgrounds and upbringings, which leads to miscommunication throughout everyday life. The function of communication is a commonly debated topic, Margaret Atwood’s, “An End to Audience?” She focuses on the concept that writing is in danger of becoming extinct due to the miscommunication among cultures. Dean Barnlund’s, “Communication in a Global Village,” the main focus is on the cultural integration and the misperceptions that occur when communicating between foreign cultures. Both have common ties in communication, or the lack of. The changes in communication are due primarily to enhancements in technology and through cultural integration. The constant metamorphosis tends to disassemble the primary goals of communication, which are to bring the community together and to coexist and prosper with one another. Communication is what creates communities, hence the root commun, therefore, as a whole the community must come together to search for the solution; how does one clearly communicate to everyone?

Emergency management encompasses a wide range of protective measures aimed at improving a community’s resiliency, managing risks, and implementing mitigation strategies. When considering emergency response strategies, emergency managers must account for cultural issues within their communities. They must structure emergency planning around community policies and underlying issues that could hinder the implementation of mitigation measures. Using blanket strategies for disaster mitigation in most cases do more harm than good. Tailoring strategies to meet the needs of specific needs of community is the best way to approach disaster planning and mitigation efforts. Emergency mangers must

Competence, language, perception, and information are all barriers that can get in the way of effective interpersonal interactions. Any of these four barriers can cause an issue so great that effect communication is made impossible. All four parts must be met

Communication plays a major part in our everyday life, if we did not communicate with each other we could not learn, develop relationships or even progress and it is very important to make sure that the best provision is created for all. Different methods can be used as a way of communicating but the way we express it can have

Communication is an ongoing process in which individuals exchange messages whose meanings are influenced by the history of the relationship and the experiences of the participants. (Adler, p.384) Communication depends on relationships between the people who are communicating, and on common basics between them. Problems in communications between people may arise due to differences in cultures, perceptions, values, and expectations from life.

Developing cultural competency is not always easy and it is not something that one acquires through birth. Instead, it is a developmental process that is nurtured over time. While the growth process may start off with a memorized list of acceptable and unacceptable behaviors that one is supposed to follow, true intercultural competence evolves when behaviors are internalized and occur naturally because they “feel right” (Medina-López-Portillo, 2004, p. 315). Stress, anxiety, and difficulties are sometimes signs that an individual is making progress towards cross-cultural “deepening” (Stephenson, 2002, p. 99). At an extreme, when individuals are overwhelmingly stressed in a new cultural environment, their failure to adapt is expressed at times by emotional and physical health issues (Li et al., 2013).

Finke, “the scholarship of integration involves the interpretation and synthesis of knowledge within and across discipline boundaries in a manner that provides a larger context for the knowledge and the development of new insights”(Finke, 2012, p. 7). The scholarship of integration means the explanation or translation and composition of information within. It is also provided appropriate factors or conditions for the learning and the evolution of new performance. During the scholarship of integration, students might have some information about the issue, but they can not to solve the problem or issue. In this case, students have to work together so that they can acquire new concepts from different disciplines. It is essential the communication between students to create or evolve new knowledge and experience about the issue or subject. When they collect and interconnect all that knowledge and experience about the subject or issue, they can solve the problem or issue via easy method. There are some examples of this type of scholarship, such as case studies, evolution of interdisciplinary pedagogical programs. It is also available to use during research and

Chapter 1- Introduces the key terms of Interdisciplinary studies. Repko and Szostak, (2017) provides us with “two dominant forms” of interdisciplinary. One form is instrumental interdisciplinarity which is problem driven and critical interdisciplinarity which is society driven (p.9).

Interdisciplinary utilizes different fields or disciplines together for a common goal. This concept provides a unique perspective on tackling issues. When implementing an interdisciplinary approach, communication can be challenging since the various disciplines have a unique set of terms and vocabulary that may not be common. Doctors, mathematician, and computer programmers to name a few all have a different way of communicating. Barriers such as these can slow the process equating to higher cost. However, the benefits of combining unlike fields can create a different experience by approaching the problem from different perspectives removing like-minded people from the trenches of their discipline.

The part of communication starts by defining the concept of communication in a political-economic way. To understand deeply the political economy of communication, it is necessary compare it with culture studies, so this part also explains the similarities and differences between this two studies.