Cultural Values In The Workplace

Culture is everywhere; it controls what we do, who we interact with and who we become because we are influenced by it from birth. Cultural values are at the heart of any society, everywhere there is a connection with culture everything people do is influenced by society. Cultural Symbols important to our society are the liberty bell, the United States Flag, the bald eagle, and the Statue of liberty. Learning more about our culture can help us to be more professional because it will help us have a better grasp on other individuals that we work with in a professional environment. Our society requires cultural values to keep social and economics under control, as we need information from the past. Cultural values are at the heart of any …show more content…
For example the understanding that American’s are slightly informal (Khols.) Therefore knowing that you don’t need to be completely rigid and uptight in a workplace is a useful element of culture that can help to make us more successful in a work environment. Having any understanding of culture will make any interaction with people much easier, allowing you to be able to guess as to how they will react. Another cultural idea that will help in the work place is the idea of directness, American’s would rather have the news in a much more direct approach, where in other countries people might try to muffle it or other soften the blow (Khols.) Knowing that our culture is more direct is useful in the workplace because whether it is good news or bad news, breaking it quickly and efficiently will work best due to America’s cultural need for directness. Americans also value time above all else almost as though it were resource, therefore teaching that time is valuable makes it easier in a workplace to use time wisely (International.) Along with valuing time American’s are obsessed with being on time as well, this is another cultural value that is useful to have in a workplace. Understanding of culture is definitely useful in a professional …show more content…
Culture is symbolized in many ways both in past events and remnants of these events, and current trends in culture that people of a particular generation might have in common. Understanding culture can be very valuable in work environments, as these cultural norms can help to make association with others of the same culture easier. Understanding other cultures may also help to understand people of another culture better, making working with others of a different culture easier. If we do not consider cultural values in society we begin to lose social expectations that exist in a culture. Thus making cultural values the heart of any