Ambiguity tolerance

Self Assessment is a technique that is used to look at ourselves and to find out different aspects of our actions that make a difference in our everyday lives. After completing 9 different aspects I was able to see different parts of my personality and how they affect the way I work and what changes can be made to make me a better person in the workplace. Overall many of the results that I received I was aware of, but with what I have learned in the course I can use these skills to improve my…

Griffith and Dunham identify the four characteristics of creative people as, "knowledgeable, intrinsically motivated, comfortable with ambiguity and willingness to take risk"Â (Griffith & Dunham, 2015). I consider each of these characteristics to be equally important in the formation of a particular creative person. Being "knowledgeable" is having the passion to learn and understand. I consider Benjamin Franklin to be a knowledgeable person who was a creative thinker. Benjamin Franklin did not…

situations which is the increase of instability and changes of business world. VUCA itself is acronym of Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity. In order to make strategies to survive in this situation, we have to understand VUCA. Not just as a whole term, but also we have to analyze the environment of Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity. 1. Volatility Volatility is a situation that caused by unexpected changes such as demand in market, technology (fast technologies…

Decision Making Strategy Life is full of decisions. Some decisions are minor. For example, choosing products at the grocery store, like which flavors of ice cream should I pick? However, other decisions are essential. For instance should I get married or should I move and take the new job? Therefore, the quality of the decisions may dictate the quality of your lifestyle. According to CDMP It seems that when I am required to make a decision, I immediately begin dealing with it, without…

honest or dishonest, characters are often grey -- neither good nor bad but morally ambiguous. Though Nick Carraway is presented an honest narrator and objective observer who values trust, Nick Carraway, as a character, becomes involved in the moral ambiguity of the wealthy East Coast and inadvertently, he himself assumes some of the faults which he criticizes the other characters for, illistrating that even a fundamentally good character such as Nick can be tainted by the admiration of wealth.…

Critical incident 3 Communicative awareness -Full competence Sandra if cognizant of the that the teacher-student relationship is based on rules. She is equally aware that students might be tempted to cheat, hence the verbal warning to the student. Throwing the cheating student’s paper into the garbage was sending a non-verbal message to the whole class that, cheating is unacceptable. Her use of both direct and indirect communication to complement each other shows her versatility in addressing…

representation of Brandon’s body in Boys Don’t Cry. In their rural, working class setting, the characters in Falls City fit the stereotype ascribed to them by urban queers as a social group that is rigid and unfit for the postmodern desires for ambiguity. Brandon then comes to represent the “heroic fulfillment of postmodern promises of gender flexibility” (Halberstam, “Queer Temporality and Postmodern Geographies”). The relationship…

After taking CASA, I was able to identify my strengths and vulnerabilities in my core competencies. Here are my results: Competencies Affecting my Psychological Ease Cross-Culturally One of my strengths for building cultural agility is my tolerance for ambiguity, it has helped me to understand the unknowns in the multicultural situations. The more I add to my knowledge base about different…

and citizens are heavily influenced by their authority. China similar to Canada, is a masculine society, but they will sacrifice leisure activities for work. China also has a low uncertainty avoidance, they will accept change and are adaptable ambiguity. Finally, China has a high long term orientation, the citizens have a strong work ethic, and believe that long term rewards are in store for hard working…

An important competence for intercultural success is to understand and accept cultural differences. Bennett’s (1986) Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity (DMIS) demonstrates the stages of interpretations of cultural difference. Figure 1. DMIS (Bennett, 1986) Hammer et al. (2003) explains that the ethnocentric stages are ‘avoiding cultural difference’ and ethnorelative stages are ‘seeking cultural difference’ and accepting it. When group members are at different stages of the DMIS…