Cultural contexts

Diversity in the Workplace Abstract Imagine that you are a highly qualified former Hispanic executive who was recently laid off from a fortune 500 hundred company. Within that company you held several key roles in which you were crucial to the success of the organization. In the prior roles you may have never really understood the need or the process of managing diversity. You hold several advanced degrees in key business fields despite all of your experience education and the economy flourishing

terms of gender, race, ethnicity, and nationality. This diversity brings substantial potential benefits such as better decision making, greater creativity and innovation, and more successful marketing to different types of customers. But, increasing cultural differences within a workforce also bring potential costs in higher turnovers, interpersonal conflicts, and communicational breakdowns. The utilities of diversity training and the essential managerial skills required for effectively managing diversity

The Contrast of Wealth Within China China today is going through an age of a fight for wealth, freedom and the division of wealth. Over the past centuries China has been divided into two areas: large cities in which many live in considerable wealth, where there is a rapidly increasing availability of well-paid jobs and a strong industrial economy. On the other hand, the other side of China is of poor towns and cities and rural areas struggling and failing to climb on

Understanding Cultural Differences in the Work Place Spring Session B Professor Davis 5/6/2012 Chamberlain College Of Nursing The importance of understanding cultural, ethnic and gender differences by managers and professionals in a business setting is essential to make the work environment comfortable. In every culture there are basic standards of thinking, and acting and these cultural differences strongly influence workplace values and communication. What may

more and more diverse. This trend also reflects our company because we have developed a very strong background of Caucasian, African American, and Latino employees. As the years have progressed, we have become stronger as a company because of the cultural diversity of our staff. Another demographic change we are seeing in the labor force today are changes in the men to women ratio. According to the United States Department of Labor, in 1970 women only made around 37% of the working population,

to a diverse workforce comprising of different individuals who significantly differ from one another. Diversity in the workplace has been defined as the differences and similarities among the employees that make up an organization in terms of age, cultural background, sex, religion (Anon., n.d.). The diversity in the workplace in terms of age is more often referred to as generational diversity. The desire by some to stay and work longer has led to the current workforce capturing many generations. With

Illicit Antiquities 1000 Word Assignment 1-4 2 References 5-6 3 Appendixes 1. 1954 Hague Convention Cultural Property Definition 7 2. Laws & Legislations 8-10 3 International Organisations (with list of acronyms) 11-12 Introduction The illegal trade in antiquities or ‘cultural property, as defined in the 1954 Hague Convention as objects of artistic, historical or archaeological interest (appendix1), has

When conducting this counseling session I decided to conduct my session as if it were an initial interview session. So with that being said my client who likes to go by the name of Jay is a 24-year old African American women who was raised by her two adoptive parents and grew up with her blood brother as well. Jay’s mother passed away from cancer when Jay was 17-years old and that is when her relationship with her father began to diminish. Jay also did not have a strong connection with her blood

grim isn’t it? Without these essential cultural components, life would be a sad place to live in, because no other cultural aspect would survive. The most essential cultural elements are Art and Literature, because art and literature lead into the other cultural aspects. Without arts and literature, you couldn’t have the rest of the cultural elements. Culture manifested itself with the aid of art and literature, without the help of writing or art, cultural unity would be impossible. A good example

In a production plant there is a of many microcultures within an organization broken down in different groups such as production, engineering, and leadership groups. For this paper I will describe the microcultures within the production as they share the same training of corporate culture as the other groups the culture within the group is very different. I have worked in production for many years and for the last ten months have been part of the leadership group therefore I will approach the paper