The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down is a book that highlights the struggles between two cultures in healthcare. The lack of understanding and communication lead to a medical tragedy for Hmong child Lia Lee. The story starts with the Lee’s forced immigration to America and talks about Lia being born with epilepsy. As the story unfolds there are many challenges that both cultures face in attempt to provide the best care for Lia. The family has very strong religious and cultural beliefs…
Intercultural negotiations The link between national cultures and negotiations is essential. Indeed, whether in business or in another field, to obtain the suited result, parties of any negotiation have to take into consideration the culture of the other one. According to Hofstede (“Cultures and organizations: Software of the Mind” (2010 edition)), negotiation process can be defined as “a common need for agreement because of an expected gain from such agreement”. In other words, the two or…
First, maximizing diversity in the medical environment is a key component to achieving organizational cultural competence. Diversity in the workplace can be obtained through hiring and promoting minority health care workers. Moreover, health care organizations need to establish or strengthen any existing programs aimed at minority leadership development…
and motivation” (1) by changing its culture through moral standards that benefit the company, establishment and/or society. Some of the leadership style’s strengths are developing an effective way to doing tasks, identifying what is not working,…
The downfall for many organizations is the incompetence to be able to understand the differences between cultures and wanting to promote a cross-cultural program. To promote interaction between different cultures has its advantages but takes a great amount of time and research (Barker). Not having a cross-cultural understanding will inhibit companies from being able to compete with their competition due to being unaware of other cultural differences around the world. Cross-cultural communication…
Rules and Regulations Distinguished The terms “rules” and “regulations” are often used in the same parlance and are closely-related; but these terms are relatively different in nature. (Subhi, 2015) Rules can be described as the guidelines or instructions of doing something correctly. These are the principles that govern the conduct or behavior or a person in an organization or country. The rules are the standard set of instructions made for people, which explains that how things are to be done…
Conflict-Intensity Continuum, management can better determine causes and processes within conflict. Management should stress the goal of creating a “positive culture” where ideas can be freely shared without fear of entering a state of conflict (Balch, 2016). Conflict and Negotiation Processes in Organizations A great deal of conflict in organizational environments occurs due to competitiveness in which “one person seeks to satisfy his or her own interests, regardless of the impact…
that have to be considered that cause slow decision making. The complexity of organizational structure in a company may cause difficulties in decision making process as well. The bigger the company is, the organizational structure will be more complex as well. The control of company’s aspect depends on the complexity,. Therefore, the more complex a company is, the top management will have less control…
1. Introduction In a global scale, the importance and awareness of diverse workforce has been increasing rapidly and this can be assumed as complex issue for organizations to be managed. Managing diversity employee becomes one of the major challenges for modern corporate leaders, human resource managers and management consultants as a result of booming diverse in a global context. Diverse workforce means merging and surrounding of workers with different demographics, racial and ethnics,…
organizations have incorporated social learning as the basic fundamental. Then, why does it seem to gain so much importance in the recent past. This is because of the massive leveraging of technology through various social networking tools, at various organizational levels, that it has become a lot more conspicuous. The scale to which the web based technologies have been put to use has reduced the…