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Lost your password? Create a new password of your choice. It is important to create a culture of inquiry where asking questions is encouraged! Being patient and understanding towards beliefs and norms of different cultures, speaking against discrimination at the workplace, and continuously learning about changing cultures are all an effective way to make workplaces more inclusive. According to Equality Challenge Unit , implicit or unconscious bias happens by our brains making incredibly quick judgments and assessments of people and situations without us realizing.
And the only way to accommodate cultural difference is to recognize unconscious bias. An individual can accommodate cultural difference by being sensitive towards different cultures and an organization can accommodate cultural difference by understanding, for example, different religious customs or encouraging cultural celebrations.
The evidence shows that knowledge sharing and collective contribution produce creative outcomes. Knowledge from different cultural backgrounds and experiences stimulates cultural inclusion and results in innovation. Thus, it is beneficial for both individuals and organizations to make knowledge sharing an important part of their culture. Another way to overcome cultural barriers is to ensure there is an inclusion of people of different cultural backgrounds in the workplace.
Diversity training can potentially foster inclusive work culture, encourage teamwork and leadership, create new opportunities, and thereby create a positive work culture. This training will help employees understand and embrace the cultural differences of their coworkers, and coworkers to embrace each other.
Hence, accommodating cultural commonalities and differences is extremely important to overcoming cultural barriers. This is also something to keep in mind while drafting communication material that is sent out to staff and clients. Jigna Kotecha is a blogger at LatPro. She is also a Media, Culture, and Communication graduate student at New York University, where she is focusing on digital media, culture, and storytelling. She has reported stories on gender rights as a journalist and conducted research on the topics of gender and diversity for non-profits.
You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. Feel free to leave a comment below, or you can simply close this window. To overcome cultural barriers within the workplace, here are some helpful hints: Determine whether a specific behaviour or attribute is a requirement of the job.
There are some cultural differences with your employees that you just have to accept and not try to change if you want your employees to perform well. However, there also are some cultural issues that are relevant to your business and to which employees of a different culture will have to adapt to if they are going to succeed in the work culture. Identify whether or not you can reasonably accommodate the cultural difference. Some cultural differences - such as an employee's willingness to confront her boss - can be accommodated by slightly altering the expectation or changing the circumstances of the situation.
For example, some cultures are not responsive to stern feedback, but they are receptive to less direct insinuations regarding their performance.
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