La Trobe University Cultural Analysis

Cultural baggage is when a person’s own behaviors or beliefs can hinder or interfere with someone else culture without them knowing it. An example is when I had an Amish patient and Amish women let the men do the talking and I would always try and talk to her forgetting about their culture because it was different than mine.

A descriptive methodology will be used to determine the current culture of the Organisation, through research and survey from the Organisation’s website and from current employees. This is going to give us a general picture of the current culture and also analysed to determine how effective the current culture is.

What would you do if you had to relocate from your home country and culture to a new country and culture? In my opinion although moving can be exciting its a hard change. Taking in a new culture in a new country doesn’t mean you have to lose all aspects of your home culture. IN the passages “Bonne Annee” and “My Favorite Chaperone” the main ideas revolve around the immigrates using their adversity to their advantage. The characters is the passages are facing difficulties with adapting to the new rules of american culture.

My biggest concerns as an ECE candidate are my language barrier and my cultural background. I think Korea is a very conservative country because it seems that there are only one standard of success, beauty, and etc. It has been continuously changed as the generation changes, but still, there is not enough understanding of diversity. Since there is one standard for each area, most people think different with others means something is wrong. There is a lack of understanding and acceptance of differences, so many people compare themselves with others to identify themselves and judge others with their own perspective easily. I have lived in that culture for 30 years. If someone asks me, “What cultural competence specifically means to you,” I could

Culture is the definition of a person, like the prologue to your favorite story. The not so scientific DNA that makes you, you. The influences and people that shape your behavior, and change your characteristics. It is the environment in which you are surrounded by. The reasons behind your peculiarity. Your culture is the most important thing, your culture is you. My culture is the constant of support that my family gives me, even if I do screw up sometimes. My culture is pureness of the love that I receive, and knowing how genuine it really is. My culture is the reliability of my friends, and the constant reassurance that they have my back. I am extremely family oriented and this allows me to succeed in tackling my dreams, one at a time.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” is a short story told from the perspective of a woman who’s believed to be “crazy”. The narrator believes that she is sick while her husband, John, believes her to just be suffering from a temporary nervous depression. The narrator’s condition worsens and she begins to see a woman moving from behind the yellow wallpaper in their bedroom. The wallpaper captures the narrator’s attention and initial drives her mad. Charlotte Gilman uses a lot of personal pieces into her short story, from her feministic views to her personal attributes. “The Yellow Wallpaper” is a short story written from a feminist and autobiographical standpoint and includes elements, like symbols and perspective that the reader can analyze in different ways.

When I began this assignment, I knew I wanted to try out a culture I know practically nothing about. I love Chinese and Japanese food, so I decided to turn in the direction of sitting at a restaurant with Chinese/Asian cuisine. This was a simple sit-down dinner that did not occur on any special day like holidays. The setting that I chose was a Cantonese restaurant located in Elmwood Park called “New Star Restaurant”. While I walked in, I noticed a variety of gift items such as porcelain turtles, buddhas, Maneki Neko (welcoming cat), pandas, etc. There was a lot of red and gold decor in the interior of the restaurant. The people of this culture are very strong believers in good fortune, good health, and family. The red means success in relationships

No matter how hard we try, or how much we study, it is pretty much impossible to become an expert on all the world’s cultures. It is possible however, to be enlightened on a few cultures through some effort and understanding. That is just what we did, through interviewing three people who were raised in cultures different from ours. The following are results from what we learned about different cultural dimensions.

A framework which can be used to identify both Steinhoff’s and Poundland’s culture is the Cultural Web - a method to analyse an organisations current and future culture. Johnson et al (2014) states the Cultural Web analyses multiple manifestations of culture informed by the taken for granted assumptions within an organisation. Johnson et al (2014) highlights one positive of utilising this framework is that it encourages companies to focus on future goals and strive for a better organisational

Culture is an important aspect of an identity. It is what we believe, how we behave and culture influences an identity’s decision making. Organisational culture is the deep, basic assumptions, beliefs and shared values that define organisational membership. It is also defined as member’s habitual ways of making decisions and presenting themselves and their organisation. In this essay, I will be discussing about organisational culture in the post-bureaucratic era. First of all, I will be talking about how top management and employees related through culture by utilising

According to Neghab A.E.P, et al(2009, pp87-88) organizational culture is a common assumption, value or norm system among members of an organization which is based on their behaviors to help organization to achieve the abilities they need to adapt itself to the environment, create uniformity and internal integrity. This essay will analyze the main issue of AT&T’s New Zealand office by using the cultural theories and the reflections after the analyzing.

To begin the discussion of organizational culture it is critical that we first define what it is that we will seek to examine. As noted in the readings, many definitions exist, however for the scope of this paper I will take the lead of Kuh and Whitt. Defining organizational culture as the “collective, mutually shaping patterns of norms, values, practices, beliefs, and assumptions that guide the behavior of individuals and groups in an institute of higher education and provide a frame of reference within which to interpret the meaning of events and actions on and off campus (Kuh and Whitt, 1998). Symbols and rituals are the more visual elements that are observed concerning organizational culture. Many of these can be viewed both

“Culture is how organizations ‘do things’.” said by Robbie Katanga. Culture is consistent, noticeable models of activities

For this week’s reading, we read “Cultural Studies” by John Frow and Meaghan Morris. The author started out by describing how “culture” became a popular term within the media since the 1980’s and words like “postmodernism” and “globalization”. The Australian politician describe the word ‘culture’ affects people’s point of views and way of working through complicated customs, values, and expectations. The author supported the argument that changing culture is a very important aspect by using an example from Murdoch. He pointed out that being able to come up with “cultural” solution is essential to solve economic issues. A quote from the text is “Changing the culture is a way of challenging the conduct of other people’s everyday working lives, whether within the framework of a single company.” (Denzin and Lincoln P. 490)

Existing culture can in times be very hard to continue with because of the change in the growth or in the strategic change in the organisation. At such appropriate web of culture is important to be identified or that can be a problem in the progress of the organisation. These identified elements will give organisation a bigger picture of what was going wrong and how can they change it towards betterment of the organisation.