An essay on the importance of cultural diversity and cultural competence Julie K Drouillard Devry institute SOC 350 July 2009 The United States is a country consisting of many cultures‚ races and religions. The United States is becoming increasingly diverse and global‚ with many minority cultures and races developing into majority cultures and races. Newer religions take their place alongside traditional faiths. Both cultural and spiritual differences in people are potential causes for misunderstanding
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Cultural Diversity Paper Power Distance & Employee Satifaction Summary The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between power distance and employee satisfaction. Power distance is one of Geert Hofstede´s five cultural dimensions. Hofstede is a Dutch sociologist that has been studying cultures for over 40 years. Power distance can be defined as “the extent to which the less powerful members of institutions and organizations within a country expect and accept that power is
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ARTICLES What is managing diversity and why does it matter? Sharon Mavin and Gill Girling University of Northumbria at Newcastle Abstract: In the UK‚ human resource practitioners and academics alike are becoming more aware of the emergence of managing diversity. But what does managing diversity actually mean‚ how does it translate into practice‚ and what does it matter? The following paper brie y debates the rhetoric of managing diversity and considers whether managing diversity is a distinct approach
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What are the benefits to teaching cultural diversity in schools? Contextually-based examples should be given‚ but be sure not to specifically identify any individual or organization. Teaching in a culturally diverse school can be beneficial in many ways. You are serving the community and teaching children the initial necessities of survival which is communication whether verbal‚ signs or signing. It could be a combination of all. You need the parental involvement too. The joy is when as
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Cultural diversity is a substantial part of the business assembly in the world today. The ability to interact with people from the western world to the eastern world has been made easily accessible through the use of technology. The means by which we communicate has made the transferring of information faster and less personal. However still to this day the most direct‚ effective and personal way to communicate with others is face-to-face communication (Varner‚ 2008). This process allows
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There are approximately 10 percent of children with incarcerated mothers‚ and 2 percent of children of incarcerated fathers that are in foster homes. The additional challenges are safe and secure environments‚ such as children that are at risk for insecure attachment‚ and experiencing caregivers who are inconsistent‚ insensitive‚ or unresponsive to a child’s social and emotional needs. There are challenges of risk for poverty‚ trauma of losing a parent‚ drug and alcohol abuse‚ family violence and
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Cultural Diversity in India India has a history of thousands of years . People have been living in India since the Stone Age. People from different regions of the world came to India. They became one with the Indian culture .From this has evolved the composite Indian Culture. All of us living in different parts of the country are Indians. Though there is a variety in our languages‚ literature and art‚ as Indians‚ we all are one. It is this diversity which has created a sense of unity among the Indians
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IKEA and Its Cultural Diversities International business is used to collectively describe all commercial transactions whether it is private or governmental‚ in terms of sales‚ investments‚ logistics‚ and transportation that takes place between two or more regions‚ countries‚ and nations beyond their political boundary. Private companies embark on such transactions for profit. This refers to all those business activities which involve cross border transactions of goods‚ resources and services between
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Cultural diversity in Morocco: An omnipresent history Morocco possesses a diverse and lively history that witnessed a long succession of different ruling people such as the Romans‚ French‚ Spanish‚ Jews‚ Arabs and Berbers. This diversity is reflected through many aspects of Moroccan life‚ namely the languages‚ the clothing‚ the cuisine‚ and the culture Traveling from region to region in Morocco might seem more like traveling from country to country. For the diversity of culture from one city
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