CORPORATE CULTURAL DIVERSITY

Tuesday, August 17th 2010


Well after the class of organizational culture in the class of August 11th; the teacher began explaining what meant Corporate Cultural Diversity focusing in the organization, which is the multiple interaction of cultures inside of it. This interaction creates a new culture within the company that becomes richer in knowledge and learning. However this cultural interaction creates certain differences between people because they have different thoughts, ideas and values, creating what is known as polarization.

Within the corporate cultural diversity exists a cultural added value, which means that each culture within a company has the ability to change the way that people see them and the rest of the organization.

During the class we did an activity we did an activity of looking for in the cafeteria a group of students identifying if they had a leader, they were doing any activity, and how they communicated, etc. In my group, we found a group formed by seven people, two girls and five boys, they were very sociable, and they seemed like engineers. Two of them were studying and the rest talking and making some jokes. There wasn’t a leader and a specific topic.


To finish is really important to consider the diversity appreciation that is the ability to have sense of tolerance respecting the ideas, thoughts and the other cultures without any limitation. That is why there must be good communication between people that integrates a group or a company, understanding their attitudes and actions in order to overcome any difference, especially the ethnocentrism and the visual obstinacy.


BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Teacher's explanation and slides.
- First image, Multicultural Cartoons and Comics. Cartoon Stock (Online: http://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/m/multicultural.asp)
- Second image, Cultural Diversity Cartoons and Comic. Cartoon Stock (Online: http://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/c/cultural_diversity.asp)